[PATCH] powerpc: remove default=y from PMAC and CHRP Kconfigs
Sven Luther
sven at genesi-usa.com
Fri Oct 10 07:18:33 EST 2008
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 12:23:06PM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Matt Sealey <matt at genesi-usa.com> 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
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