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From: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: remove default=y from PMAC and CHRP Kconfigs
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 20:22:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <68168CE9-D17F-4C55-BF0B-0FAFC3672398@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18670.42312.827841.167852@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>


On Oct 9, 2008, at 7:43 PM, Paul Mackerras wrote:

> Timur Tabi writes:
>
>> I'm waiting for someone to explain to me what's so special about CHRP
>> and PMAC that these two platforms should be enabled by default, when
>> all other PowerPC platforms are disabled by default.
>
> Historically they have been the most important 32-bit platforms, along
> with PReP.
>
> The problem with making all platforms default to N is that if you take
> the default values for all config options you end up with a config
> that won't build.  So we want at least one platform to default to Y,
> and pmac has been as good a choice as any for that (and probably still
> is).

I've got no issue w/grandfathering CHRP or PMAC as default Y.  However  
I DO NOT think we should default other platforms to 'Y' as that means  
updating configs will pick up platforms they dont want.

- k

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-10  1:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-08 19:57 [PATCH] powerpc: remove default=y from PMAC and CHRP Kconfigs Timur Tabi
2008-10-08 20:03 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-08 20:14   ` Timur Tabi
2008-10-08 20:39     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-08 20:44       ` Timur Tabi
2008-10-09 15:59         ` Matt Sealey
2008-10-09 16:20           ` Timur Tabi
2008-10-09 16:49             ` Matt Sealey
2008-10-09 17:08               ` Scott Wood
2008-10-09 17:23               ` Timur Tabi
2008-10-09 20:18                 ` Sven Luther
2008-10-09 21:14                   ` Timur Tabi
2008-10-09 21:28                     ` Sven Luther
2008-10-09 21:32                       ` Timur Tabi
2008-10-10  0:43             ` Paul Mackerras
2008-10-10  1:22               ` Kumar Gala [this message]
2008-10-10  1:51                 ` Timur Tabi
2008-10-10  3:01                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-10  3:01                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-09 16:21           ` Scott Wood
2008-10-08 20:46   ` Scott Wood

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