Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-21 Thread Scott Wood
On Tue, 2015-04-21 at 08:25 -0500, Timur Tabi wrote: Scott Wood wrote: We want single-name config targets to still work from the user's perspective, but we want to reduce the (often imperfect) duplication under the hood. Ok, then define a new Kconfig option that merge_config.sh will look

Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-21 Thread Scott Wood
On Tue, 2015-04-21 at 13:11 -0500, Timur Tabi wrote: On 04/21/2015 12:55 PM, Scott Wood wrote: Ok, then define a new Kconfig option that merge_config.sh will look for. So in p1_defconfig, there will be this line: CONFIG_OTHER_DEFCONFIGS=fsl_basic_config If you want to do that go

Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-21 Thread Timur Tabi
On 04/21/2015 12:55 PM, Scott Wood wrote: Ok, then define a new Kconfig option that merge_config.sh will look for. So in p1_defconfig, there will be this line: CONFIG_OTHER_DEFCONFIGS=fsl_basic_config If you want to do that go ahead. In the meantime we'll use the mechanism that already

Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-21 Thread Timur Tabi
Scott Wood wrote: We want single-name config targets to still work from the user's perspective, but we want to reduce the (often imperfect) duplication under the hood. Ok, then define a new Kconfig option that merge_config.sh will look for. So in p1_defconfig, there will be this line:

Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-20 Thread Scott Wood
On Sat, 2015-04-18 at 08:46 -0500, Timur Tabi wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 11:53 PM, Lijun Pan lijun@freescale.com wrote: Have just sent out a patch considering the previous discussion. http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/462249/ [PATCH] powerpc/defconfig: new way of writing defconfig

Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-20 Thread Michael Ellerman
On Mon, 2015-04-20 at 21:02 -0500, Timur Tabi wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Scott Wood scottw...@freescale.com wrote: The ability to merge configs is already there. We're just talking about using that functionality. Why do you need a powerpc-specific way to use

Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-20 Thread Scott Wood
the subject of this thread, which is new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms. Are you complaining about the actual content of which fragments to use to produce which defconfigs going in arch/powerpc? No, I'm just trying to figure out what's powerpc-specific about

Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-20 Thread Scott Wood
On Mon, 2015-04-20 at 21:02 -0500, Timur Tabi wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Scott Wood scottw...@freescale.com wrote: The ability to merge configs is already there. We're just talking about using that functionality. Why do you need a powerpc-specific way to use

Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-20 Thread Timur Tabi
defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms. Are you complaining about the actual content of which fragments to use to produce which defconfigs going in arch/powerpc? No, I'm just trying to figure out what's powerpc-specific about Lijun's proposal. Besides, wouldn't it make more sense to define

Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-20 Thread Timur Tabi
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Scott Wood scottw...@freescale.com wrote: The ability to merge configs is already there. We're just talking about using that functionality. Why do you need a powerpc-specific way to use merge_config.sh? Other architectures have the same problem with

Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-18 Thread Timur Tabi
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 11:53 PM, Lijun Pan lijun@freescale.com wrote: Have just sent out a patch considering the previous discussion. http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/462249/ [PATCH] powerpc/defconfig: new way of writing defconfig The ability to merge defconfigs is a feature that's been

RE: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-18 Thread Richard Schmitt
-Original Message- From: Bob Cochran [mailto:p...@mindchasers.com] Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 8:21 AM To: Wood Scott-B07421; Pan Lijun-B44306 Cc: linuxppc-...@ozlabs.org; Schmitt Richard-B43082 Subject: Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-17 Thread Michael Ellerman
On Thu, 2015-04-16 at 23:13 -0500, Scott Wood wrote: On Fri, 2015-04-17 at 10:54 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: On Thu, 2015-04-09 at 21:52 +, Lijun Pan wrote: Hi Maintainers, We have a proposal for writing the defconfigs for freescale's powperpc platforms in a new way. Can

RE: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-17 Thread Lijun Pan
-Original Message- From: Michael Ellerman [mailto:m...@ellerman.id.au] Sent: Friday, April 17, 2015 1:19 AM To: Wood Scott-B07421 Cc: Pan Lijun-B44306; linuxppc-...@ozlabs.org; Schmitt Richard-B43082 Subject: Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-17 Thread Scott Wood
: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms On Thu, 2015-04-16 at 23:13 -0500, Scott Wood wrote: On Fri, 2015-04-17 at 10:54 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: On Thu, 2015-04-09 at 21:52 +, Lijun Pan wrote: Hi Maintainers, We have a proposal for writing

RE: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-17 Thread Lijun Pan
-Original Message- From: Wood Scott-B07421 Sent: Friday, April 17, 2015 1:53 PM To: Pan Lijun-B44306 Cc: Michael Ellerman; linuxppc-...@ozlabs.org; Schmitt Richard-B43082 Subject: Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms On Fri, 2015-04-17 at 13:50

RE: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-16 Thread Lijun Pan
-Original Message- From: Wood Scott-B07421 Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2015 5:31 PM To: Pan Lijun-B44306 Cc: linuxppc-...@ozlabs.org; Schmitt Richard-B43082 Subject: Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms On Thu, 2015-04-09 at 16:52 -0500, Pan Lijun

Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-16 Thread Bob Cochran
On 04/16/2015 12:44 AM, Bob Cochran wrote: On 04/09/2015 06:31 PM, Scott Wood wrote: On Thu, 2015-04-09 at 16:52 -0500, Pan Lijun-B44306 wrote: Hi Maintainers, We have a proposal for writing the defconfigs for freescale's powperpc platforms in a new way. Can you take a look and provide some

Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-16 Thread Michael Ellerman
On Thu, 2015-04-09 at 21:52 +, Lijun Pan wrote: Hi Maintainers, We have a proposal for writing the defconfigs for freescale's powperpc platforms in a new way. Can you take a look and provide some feedback? You know currently we have mpc85xx_defconfig, corenet32_defconfig,

Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-16 Thread Scott Wood
On Fri, 2015-04-17 at 10:54 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: On Thu, 2015-04-09 at 21:52 +, Lijun Pan wrote: Hi Maintainers, We have a proposal for writing the defconfigs for freescale's powperpc platforms in a new way. Can you take a look and provide some feedback? You know

Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-16 Thread Scott Wood
On Thu, 2015-04-16 at 00:44 -0400, Bob Cochran wrote: As you probably know, Freescale makes use of the Yocto Project build system for its SDK and submits patches to the SDK at a public meta-fsl-ppc repo at http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-fsl-ppc/ I have seen some kernel

Re: new way of writing defconfigs for freescale's powerpc platforms

2015-04-15 Thread Bob Cochran
On 04/09/2015 06:31 PM, Scott Wood wrote: On Thu, 2015-04-09 at 16:52 -0500, Pan Lijun-B44306 wrote: Hi Maintainers, We have a proposal for writing the defconfigs for freescale's powperpc platforms in a new way. Can you take a look and provide some feedback? You know currently we have