[PATCH v4 REPOST 1/5] ARM: l2x0/pl310: Refactor Kconfig to be more maintainable

Anton Vorontsov cbouatmailru at gmail.com
Wed Dec 14 07:03:14 EST 2011


On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:39:37AM +0000, Dave Martin wrote:
> Making CACHE_L2X0 depend on (huge list of MACH_ and ARCH_ configs)
> is bothersome to maintain and likely to lead to merge conflicts.
> 
> This patch moves the knowledge of which platforms have a L2x0 or
> PL310 cache controller to the individual machines.  To enable this,
> a new MIGHT_HAVE_CACHE_L2X0 config option is introduced to allow
> machines to indicate that they may have such a cache controller
> independently of each other.
> 
> Boards/SoCs which cannot reliably operate without the L2 cache
> controller support will need to select CACHE_L2X0 directly from
> their own Kconfigs instead.  This applies to some TrustZone-enabled
> boards where Linux runs in the Normal World, for example.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin at linaro.org>

For CNS3xxx bits:

Acked-by: Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru at gmail.com>

Thanks!



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