On Monday 08 September 2014 13:01:31 Robert Richter wrote:
> This is well hidden on x86, but each vendor has a config option. For
> AMD systems we have had our own option to disable vendor specific
> code, see CPU_SUP_AMD for example. Disabling this will remove all AMD
> specific code in the kernel. Of course this is enabled per default.
>
> With ARCH_THUNDER I intended to do the same (you could name this also
> SOC_SUP_CAVIUM or so but I kept the current naming scheme). In patch
> 4/4 I have added the option to defconfig. This enables this per
> default and nobody has to deal with any option manually, just running
> make defconfig is fine.
>
> Also, at least to disable building the dtb file for foo, you will need
> ARCH_FOO too. How else would you deal with dtb files then?
The only alternative I see is to build them all.
> Having ARCH_FOO might not be necessary for drivers. One could enable
> drivers manually, but this option is still a good reference for the
> drivers needed by foo. At some point you will carry tons of enabled
> drivers in your defconfig and you don't know which platform actually
> is using it. For generic drivers this might be fine. But in my point
> of few, each soc specific driver should have an soc specific option
> too. Then you easily can remove an soc from the defconfig.
Yes, that's what I had in my example.
Arnd
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