On 10/04/12 06:05, Rob Herring wrote: > On 10/04/2012 03:50 AM, Stephen Boyd wrote: >> The TWD and SCU configs are selected by default as long as >> SCORPIONMP is false and/or MCT is false. Implementing the logic >> this way certainly saves lines in the Kconfig but it precludes >> those machines which select SCORPIONMP or MCT from participating >> in the single zImage effort because when those machines are >> combined with other SMP capable machines the TWD and SCU are no >> longer selected. >> >> Push the select out to the machine entries so that we can compile >> these machines together and still select the appropriate configs. > I think this is the wrong direction as I'd like to see the platform > selects shrink. I believe the local timers are run-time enabled now, so > can't we just drop the condition and always select TWD and SCU for > multi-platform?
That sounds fine for multi-platform but it penalizes the "optimized" images made for a particular device that doesn't want any extra code than is necessary. Isn't this why we have the Kconfig language? > > Or perhaps we need a CortexA9 config symbol that selects V7, GIC, TWD, > SCU, SMP, PL310, errata, etc. rather than duplicating those for every > platform. > > This sounds like a good consolidation of lines that can be done in parallel to this patch. Care to send a patch on top? -- Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, hosted by The Linux Foundation -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
