On Sun, 2013-09-15 at 16:53 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Sun, 2013-09-15 at 16:42 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > As discussed previously, I think PCI should be enabled for the > > armhf/armmp flavour as the Marvell Armada SoCs have PCIe interfaces. It > > might be worthwhile to restrict which PCI drivers are built, if this > > slows the build down a lot. > > I've started preparing patches for this against trunk. As well as > turning on CONFIG_PCI I'm also looking at enabling some additional NIC > and SCSI cards and adding the standard nic-modules and scsi-modules to > the udebs. > > My armhf system is pretty fast so I can't make a good judgement on > slowing the build down (however that should be mitigated by the removal > of other flavours?)
Right. > > Ian also proposed to add an armhf/armmp-lpae flavour. I think it's time > > to do that, but I would also like to see the 3 platform-specific armhf > > flavours removed. Which of the platforms are sufficiently well > > supported by armhf/armmp that we can do that? > > I've got patches to remove mx5 and vexpress in my queue, I don't know > how/why I skipped omap, but I'll add it in. > > I cannot answer the question of how well they are actually supported (so > I'd be reluctant to push them). I do have some i.MX53 (loco) boards at > the office but I'm away at the minute (they are technically "production" > but are mostly obsolete and I could nick one or two for testing). If no-one answers this then I think the way to find out is to go ahead and remove them. > > The new imx-drm driver (CONFIG_DRM_IMX) should probably be enabled in > > armhf/armmp and armhf/mx5. > > That reminds me, kernel-wedge is currently complaining about missing > sdhci-esdhc-imx from the mx5 flavour. I think this is fallout from > disabling MMC_SDHCI_PLTFM in 3.11-1~exp1. Right, I've just fixed that. I also re-enabled REGULATOR properly (for some reason I had changed it to =m which is not valid). I also noticed that ARM configs mostly have CONFIG_CPU_THERMAL=m but this symbol is now a boolean and the result is that it's disabled. I fixed that too. Ben. > > After some cleanup of the top-level configuration, the armel/iop32x and > > armel/ixp4xx flavours can again be built. However these may still need > > specific attention in the future. > > > > Ben. -- Ben Hutchings In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
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