[PATCH] ARM: Make multi_v7_defconfig usable on hardware

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Thu Jun 27 04:01:27 EDT 2013


* Olof Johansson <olof at lixom.net> [130626 11:08]:
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
> > On 06/25/2013 07:36 PM, Olof Johansson wrote:
> >> This updates multi_v7_defconfig to boot on at least Tegra2 Seaboard and
> >> Panda ES. I lack working hardware for most of the platforms that were
> >> enabled to compare with, so I could only verify those two for now. Still,
> >> I enabled all of the available ones for build coverage purposes.
> >>
> >> Beyond base platforms, things like PRINTK_TIME, filesystems, MMC, USB,
> >> INET and UNIX networking was enabled. I'm sure we'll keep adding more
> >> over time, but this gets us off the ground for semi-regular boot testing.
> >
> > This looks like a good first step for Tegra,so,
> >
> > Acked-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
> >
> > There are quite a few drivers enabled in tegra_defconfig that aren't in
> > this file. They're probably not required for basic boot testing (I think
> > e.g. all the PMICs were there), but would be for full functionality.
> > Should we port all those in too sometime?
> 
> 
> Yep, ideally multi_v7_defconfig should be as complete as it gets, and
> I would actually like to see platforms move over to using that instead
> of their slimmed down for a lot of stuff.

We should make it all modular too so distros can use it as a base.
Otherwise we'll fast run into all kinds of issues with the image
size.

Regards,

Tony



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