On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 12:23:06PM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote: > On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Matt Sealey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Because they are by far the historically most common configuration, and > > still in production as the defacto standard PowerPC system configuration. > > Not really. PMAC systems are not being built any more. So that leaves CHRP. > > > IBM blades etc. with SLOF will boot up as a CHRP-ish system, as well as the > > Efika and Pegasos and anything else Genesi produces. Since Linux > > distributions generally do not support tiny embedded boards, > > So what? Distributions don't need our help to turn on the options > that are important to them. This is a ridiculous argument. > > > you can imagine why it's > > disabled by default, but there's no reason it can't be ENABLED by default > > and turned off by a distribution, the same way it can't be enabled by > > default and turned off by YOU (compare and contrast having to manually > > select which board you want to build for every time). > > This problem is solved with defconfigs. Kconfig options are supposed
... > Not really true. Having the default be disabled for specific > platforms can make a big difference in compile time. Notice that the defconfigs answer also applies here :) Friendly, Sven Luther _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev