[PATCH 21/21] ARM: Kirkwood: Remove DT support

Andrew Lunn andrew at lunn.ch
Fri Feb 7 04:12:40 EST 2014


On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 09:33:13AM +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Andrew Lunn,
> 
> On Fri,  7 Feb 2014 00:42:17 +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > Now that all the device tree support is in mach-mvebu, remove it from
> > mach-kirkwood.
> > 
> > Regenerate kirkwood_defconfig, removing all DT support, and a couple
> > of other redundent options have been removed in the process.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn.ch>
> > ---
> >  arch/arm/configs/kirkwood_defconfig |   6 -
> 
> So after this series we have a mvebu_defconfig that only builds the
> ARMv7 platforms of mach-mvebu. I believe this may look strange to
> people looking at the code, seeing that Kirkwood DT support is in
> mach-mvebu, but that mvebu_defconfig doesn't work to build a Kirkwood
> kernel.
> 
> I don't really have a solution, except maybe having mvebu_v7_defconfig
> and mvebu_v5_defconfig to build only the Marvell v7 and Marvell v5
> platforms.

Hi Thomas

I also have no solution, other than what you suggested. I think it
also goes against the rules for a platform to have multiple _defconfig
files. We probably do have a good cause to go against the rules
thought. Lets wait and see what ARM SOC maintainers suggest.

	 Andrew



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