[PATCH v3 3/3] powerpc/85xx: use one kernel option for all the CoreNet_Generic boards

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Thu Sep 26 09:11:23 EST 2013


On Wed, 2013-09-25 at 08:58 +0800, Kevin Hao wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 05:41:32PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> > On Tue, 2013-09-24 at 11:03 +0800, Kevin Hao wrote:
> > > +	  and B4 QDS boards
> [...]
> > 
> > Is there any difference between the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of this
> > config symbol, other than the help text?
> 
> No. As you know some of these boards only support 32bit kernel and some of
> them only support 64bit kernel. It will definitely cause confusion when using
> only one kernel option for all these boards. So I divide this into two options
> (even the same name) for 32bit and 64bit respectively.

You could just mention in the help text which boards are 32-bit, which
are 64-bit, and which can work with either.

-Scott





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