[PATCH 2/5] ARM: realview: reduce the RealView Kconfig

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Fri Aug 12 05:56:25 PDT 2016


On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 2:52 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 10, 2016 2:40:27 PM CEST Linus Walleij wrote:
>> -
>> -config REALVIEW_EB_ARM1136
>> -       bool "Support ARM1136J(F)-S Tile"
>> -       depends on MACH_REALVIEW_EB && ARCH_MULTI_V6
>> -       select CPU_V6
>> -       help
>> -         Enable support for the ARM1136 tile fitted to the
>> -         Realview(R) Emulation Baseboard platform.
>> -
>
> You seem to lose the "select CPU_V6" here, so we end up building
> realview_defconfig for ARMv6K or higher, and that won't work
> on ARM1136r0 (it will work on ARM1136r1 and all other v6 based
> cores).
>
> I actually liked the idea of having per-CPU options for Realview-EB
> here, but if we can find another way to select CPU_V6 when needed,
> I won't complain about the removal as it does simplify things
> quite a bit.

Hm I got too carried away with the broomstick I think.

I'm simply dropping this patch for now.

Yours,
Linus Walleij



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