Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-21 Thread Timur Tabi
On 04/21/2015 12:55 PM, Scott Wood wrote: > >Ok, then define a new Kconfig option that merge_config.sh will look for. > So in p1_defconfig, there will be this line: > >CONFIG_OTHER_DEFCONFIGS=fsl_basic_config If you want to do that go ahead. In the meantime we'll use the mechanism that alread

Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-21 Thread Scott Wood
On Tue, 2015-04-21 at 13:11 -0500, Timur Tabi wrote: > On 04/21/2015 12:55 PM, Scott Wood wrote: > >> > > >> >Ok, then define a new Kconfig option that merge_config.sh will look for. > >> > So in p1_defconfig, there will be this line: > >> > > >> >CONFIG_OTHER_DEFCONFIGS=fsl_basic_config > > If y

Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-21 Thread Scott Wood
On Tue, 2015-04-21 at 08:25 -0500, Timur Tabi wrote: > Scott Wood wrote: > > We want single-name config targets to still work from the user's > > perspective, but we want to reduce the (often imperfect) duplication > > under the hood. > > Ok, then define a new Kconfig option that merge_config.sh w

Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-21 Thread Timur Tabi
Scott Wood wrote: We want single-name config targets to still work from the user's perspective, but we want to reduce the (often imperfect) duplication under the hood. Ok, then define a new Kconfig option that merge_config.sh will look for. So in p1_defconfig, there will be this line: CONFI

Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-20 Thread Scott Wood
On Mon, 2015-04-20 at 22:42 -0500, Timur Tabi wrote: > Scott Wood wrote: > >> > > >> >Why do you need a powerpc-specific way to use merge_config.sh? Other > >> >architectures have the same problem with defconfigs. > > > What are you perceiving as "powerpc-specific" about what we're > > proposing?

Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-20 Thread Timur Tabi
Scott Wood wrote: > >Why do you need a powerpc-specific way to use merge_config.sh? Other >architectures have the same problem with defconfigs. What are you perceiving as "powerpc-specific" about what we're proposing? Well, there's the subject of this thread, which is "new way of writing d

Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-20 Thread Michael Ellerman
On Mon, 2015-04-20 at 21:02 -0500, Timur Tabi wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Scott Wood wrote: > > > > > > The ability to merge configs is already there. We're just talking about > > using that functionality. > > Why do you need a powerpc-specific way to use merge_config.sh? Other >

Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-20 Thread Scott Wood
On Mon, 2015-04-20 at 21:02 -0500, Timur Tabi wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Scott Wood wrote: > > > > > > The ability to merge configs is already there. We're just talking about > > using that functionality. > > Why do you need a powerpc-specific way to use merge_config.sh? Other >

Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-20 Thread Timur Tabi
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Scott Wood wrote: > > > The ability to merge configs is already there. We're just talking about > using that functionality. Why do you need a powerpc-specific way to use merge_config.sh? Other architectures have the same problem with defconfigs. Besides, wouldn

Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-20 Thread Scott Wood
On Sat, 2015-04-18 at 08:46 -0500, Timur Tabi wrote: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 11:53 PM, Lijun Pan wrote: > > > Have just sent out a patch considering the previous discussion. > > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/462249/ > > [PATCH] powerpc/defconfig: new way of writing defconfig > > The abilit

Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-18 Thread Timur Tabi
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 11:53 PM, Lijun Pan wrote: > Have just sent out a patch considering the previous discussion. > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/462249/ > [PATCH] powerpc/defconfig: new way of writing defconfig The ability to merge defconfigs is a feature that's been requested by many pe

RE: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-18 Thread Richard Schmitt
> -Original Message- > From: Bob Cochran [mailto:p...@mindchasers.com] > Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 8:21 AM > To: Wood Scott-B07421; Pan Lijun-B44306 > Cc: linuxppc-...@ozlabs.org; Schmitt Richard-B43082 > Subject: Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale&#

RE: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-17 Thread Lijun Pan
> -Original Message- > From: Wood Scott-B07421 > Sent: Friday, April 17, 2015 1:53 PM > To: Pan Lijun-B44306 > Cc: Michael Ellerman; linuxppc-...@ozlabs.org; Schmitt Richard-B43082 > Subject: Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms >

Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-17 Thread Scott Wood
.@ozlabs.org; Schmitt Richard-B43082 > > Subject: Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms > > > > On Thu, 2015-04-16 at 23:13 -0500, Scott Wood wrote: > > > On Fri, 2015-04-17 at 10:54 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: > > > &

RE: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-17 Thread Lijun Pan
> -Original Message- > From: Michael Ellerman [mailto:m...@ellerman.id.au] > Sent: Friday, April 17, 2015 1:19 AM > To: Wood Scott-B07421 > Cc: Pan Lijun-B44306; linuxppc-...@ozlabs.org; Schmitt Richard-B43082 > Subject: Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale&#

Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-16 Thread Michael Ellerman
On Thu, 2015-04-16 at 23:13 -0500, Scott Wood wrote: > On Fri, 2015-04-17 at 10:54 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: > > On Thu, 2015-04-09 at 21:52 +, Lijun Pan wrote: > > > Hi Maintainers, > > > > > > We have a proposal for writing the defconfigs for freescale's powperpc > > > platforms in a n

Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-16 Thread Scott Wood
On Fri, 2015-04-17 at 10:54 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: > On Thu, 2015-04-09 at 21:52 +, Lijun Pan wrote: > > Hi Maintainers, > > > > We have a proposal for writing the defconfigs for freescale's powperpc > > platforms in a new way. > > Can you take a look and provide some feedback? > > >

Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-16 Thread Michael Ellerman
On Thu, 2015-04-09 at 21:52 +, Lijun Pan wrote: > Hi Maintainers, > > We have a proposal for writing the defconfigs for freescale's powperpc > platforms in a new way. > Can you take a look and provide some feedback? > > You know currently we have mpc85xx_defconfig, corenet32_defconfig, > bs

Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-16 Thread Scott Wood
On Thu, 2015-04-16 at 00:44 -0400, Bob Cochran wrote: > As you probably know, Freescale makes use of the Yocto Project build > system for its SDK and submits patches to the SDK at a public > meta-fsl-ppc repo at http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-fsl-ppc/ > > I have seen some kernel

RE: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-16 Thread Lijun Pan
> -Original Message- > From: Wood Scott-B07421 > Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2015 5:31 PM > To: Pan Lijun-B44306 > Cc: linuxppc-...@ozlabs.org; Schmitt Richard-B43082 > Subject: Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms > > On Thu, 2

Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-16 Thread Bob Cochran
On 04/16/2015 12:44 AM, Bob Cochran wrote: On 04/09/2015 06:31 PM, Scott Wood wrote: On Thu, 2015-04-09 at 16:52 -0500, Pan Lijun-B44306 wrote: Hi Maintainers, We have a proposal for writing the defconfigs for freescale's powperpc platforms in a new way. Can you take a look and provide some fe

Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-15 Thread Bob Cochran
On 04/09/2015 06:31 PM, Scott Wood wrote: On Thu, 2015-04-09 at 16:52 -0500, Pan Lijun-B44306 wrote: Hi Maintainers, We have a proposal for writing the defconfigs for freescale's powperpc platforms in a new way. Can you take a look and provide some feedback? You know currently we have mpc85xx