[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 11:26:00 EST 2013


On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 09:23 +0800, Kevin Hao wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 06:11:23PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> OK. How about this?
> 
>  arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/Kconfig | 26 +++++++-------------------
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

Looks good.

-Scott





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