Heads up: Linus plans to kill ARM defconfigs

Ryan Mallon ryan at bluewatersys.com
Mon Jun 7 17:09:26 EDT 2010


Martin Guy wrote:
> Shame. I was about to post a Sim.One defconfig patch (while fully
> realizing that the choice of options is largely arbitrary. and copied
> ad-hoc from some other similar defconfig). While it's nice to be able
> to tell people "make foobar_defconfig; make (z|u|bz)Image" in reality
> the config is as arbitrary as the root filesystem in use (and should
> be chosen to match it).

Once the support runtime phys offset is merged it will be possible for
ep93xx_defconfig to support all of the ep93xx boards.

~Ryan

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