On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 10:21:27AM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote: > If your SoC is only used by OpenWrt (like ixp4xx) then it is fine > to just use bool because that distribution is always built with an > image for a specific hardware, whereas distributions are generic.
Speaking for myself (since I have a few now), I'm not running OpenWRT on mine but my own distro, and I guess most users will run either Buildroot or their own distro. It's unlikely that we'll see very generic distros there given the limited storage you'd typically have in an SPI NOR (16-32 MB) and the small RAM (64MB) which tends to discourage anyone from booting a regular distro over other storage anyway. Thus my guess is that most users will keep building their own kernels. But this just emphasizes your points :-) Just my two cents, Willy