On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 03:50:45 -0700 (PDT) "Rodney W. Grimes" <free...@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
> > > > Hi Svatopluk, > > > > On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 21:23:35 +0200 > > Svatopluk Kraus <onw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I understand the reason for GENERIC. But are we so blind that we will > > > delete everything that is not GENERIC? In other words, why to delete > > > nice specific KERNEL configurations for boards we support when only > > > reason I see is that GENERIC is so cool for some people? > > > > That's simple and maybe I should have explain more in the commit > > message. Those configs aren't tested. All the images that we provide > > are using GENERIC kernel so we know that GENERIC is tested (somewhat). > > Those config will also lack update if we need to add a new required > > pseudo device (like syscon) and maybe it's already the case on some. > > The only way (for now) that we could produce board specific kernel > > is to include GENERIC and add a bunch of nodevice "blah", which is not > > going to happen. We have plan for splitting the GENERIC kernel into soc > > familly file, then it would be easier for people to have a SoC kernel > > config. > > Finaly I guess that when you say "boards we support" you are talking > > about RPI2, BEAGLEBONE or maybe PANDABOARD. For me those aren't board > > that we support, those are survivors that had the chance to not die in > > the past years. No developer care about or work on those boards. > > I just recently asked about the issue I was having when I last > tried to run > head/sys/arm/conf/CHROMEBOOK-SNOW > which iirc is a derived from > head/sys/arm/conf/EXYNOS5420 > which is documented in the Wiki as to how to build it, > pointing to use the kernel config you just deleted. Is there a question ? Even if you managed to compile this kernel and maybe run it, what's next ? Nobody works on this SoC. I will send some reviews in the next weeks to remove some SoC support. > > > Svatopluk Kraus > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 9:27 PM Emmanuel Vadot <m...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > Author: manu > > > > Date: Wed Apr 10 19:27:14 2019 > > > > New Revision: 346096 > > > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/346096 > > > > > > > > Log: > > > > arm: kernel: Remove old kernel configs > > > > > > > > Follow up to r346095 > > > > All those kernels are either not working or the release have switched > > > > to GENERIC > > > > > > > > Deleted: > > > > head/sys/arm/conf/AML8726 > > > > head/sys/arm/conf/BEAGLEBONE > > > > head/sys/arm/conf/CHROMEBOOK > > > > head/sys/arm/conf/CHROMEBOOK-PEACH-PIT > > > > head/sys/arm/conf/CHROMEBOOK-PEACH-PIT.hints > > > > head/sys/arm/conf/CHROMEBOOK-SNOW > > > > head/sys/arm/conf/CHROMEBOOK-SPRING > > > > head/sys/arm/conf/CHROMEBOOK.hints > > > > head/sys/arm/conf/EXYNOS5.common > > > > head/sys/arm/conf/EXYNOS5250 > > > > head/sys/arm/conf/EXYNOS5420 > > > > head/sys/arm/conf/ODROIDC1 > > > > head/sys/arm/conf/PANDABOARD > > > > head/sys/arm/conf/PANDABOARD.hints > > > > head/sys/arm/conf/RADXA > > > > head/sys/arm/conf/RADXA-LITE > > > > head/sys/arm/conf/RK3188 > > > > head/sys/arm/conf/RPI2 > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Emmanuel Vadot <m...@bidouilliste.com> <m...@freebsd.org> > > > > > > -- > Rod Grimes rgri...@freebsd.org -- Emmanuel Vadot <m...@bidouilliste.com> <m...@freebsd.org> _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
