[PATCH] ARM: default to multi_v7_defconfig

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Tue Dec 22 02:18:35 PST 2015


On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 11:44:23PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> versatile_defconfig has not been a reasonable default for a very long
> time, there is very little work happening on this platform and it's
> based on an old ARM926 CPU core.
> 
> This changes the default to multi_v7_defconfig, which is much more
> relevant to anyone doing a build test on ARM, as it covers a wide
> range of platforms.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/Makefile b/arch/arm/Makefile
> index 2c2b28ee4811..e9fb67913e6e 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/arm/Makefile
> @@ -30,9 +30,8 @@ GZFLAGS		:=-9
>  # Never generate .eh_frame
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= $(call cc-option,-fno-dwarf2-cfi-asm)
>  
> -# Do not use arch/arm/defconfig - it's always outdated.
> -# Select a platform tht is kept up-to-date
> -KBUILD_DEFCONFIG := versatile_defconfig
> +# This should work on most of the modern platforms
> +KBUILD_DEFCONFIG := multi_v7_defconfig
>  
>  # defines filename extension depending memory management type.
>  ifeq ($(CONFIG_MMU),)

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>

Will



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