[linuxppc-release] [PATCH] powerpc: introduce basic support for the Freescale P1022DS reference board
Olof Johansson
olof at lixom.net
Wed Jun 30 12:24:40 EST 2010
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 06:16:08PM -0700, Tabi Timur-B04825 wrote:
> Olof Johansson wrote:
> > Sure, the family-defconfigs are supposed to be supersets that can boot
> > everywhere. If you're concerned about static kernel size you can always
> > enable it as modules instead.
>
> It just seems wrong to add full support for audio and video in the kernel,
> when it can be used only on one, relatively obscure chip. Video support
> would need to be in-kernel only in order to get the console working, and I
> suspect that core ALSA support would need to be in-kernel as well.
See the text you quoted from me above, it applies at a reply to this as well.
-Olof
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