[RFC PATCH] arm64: defconfig: add config fragment for Freescale SoCs

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Sat Apr 16 09:50:53 PDT 2016


On Thursday 14 April 2016 18:04:33 Catalin Marinas wrote:
> 
> > Allowing us to have a freescale.config gives us the flexibility of
> > adding Freescale specific options without having to keep this in
> > some other external repo.  It also keeps vendor specific clutter
> > out of the base defconfig.  With the number of new armv8 chips 
> > coming out the single defconfig is going to produce increasingly
> > large kernels, since all drivers are built-in.
> 
> As I said, for the time being please add all the sane the options to
> defconfig. I want to be able to build a defconfig and run on all
> supported SoCs.

I'd suggest making the non-essential drivers loadable modules though,
in particular the sensor drivers.

There are two block device drivers included here (SoC specific
front-ends for AHCI and SDHCI), I'm not sure about what to do with
them, but we should try to do it consistently, either making
them all built-in to simplify booting from them without a ramdisk,
or try to make them all modules as well.

	Arnd



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