[PATCH 0/3] ARM: vexpress_defconfig: Allow to boot using a regular filesystem on SD card

Christoffer Dall christoffer.dall at linaro.org
Wed Aug 21 19:19:35 EDT 2013


On 21 August 2013 15:57, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Pawel Moll <pawel.moll at arm.com> wrote:
>
>> This gets down to the question do we actually want the
>> vexpress_defconfig at all?
>
> I added it because people were complaining that I was not
> testing code against Vexpress and there was no way to
> conveniently do that without a defconfig.
>
> It is also used in Rothwells kisskb:
> http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/branch/9/
>
And it's mentioned in a wide variety of guides concerning building
QEMU/KVM guest images - I think it would be premature to remove it.

-Christoffer



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