[PATCH 1/3] powerpc: Don't build powernv for other platform defconfigs

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Fri Oct 3 18:04:59 EST 2014


On Wed, 2014-09-24 at 16:34 +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 15:57:10 +1000 Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au> wrote:
> >
> > Because powernv arrived after these other platforms, the defconfigs
> > didn't have PPC_POWERNV disabled, and being default y it gets turned on.
> 
> Well, that raises the question of why PPC_POWERNV is default y at all?

I think that makes sense. With a bare config, you want all the platforms that
can be built to build, so that the kernel you produce is able to boot on as
many things as possible.

If you want a stripped down config for a particular target then we have
defconfigs that do that.

cheers




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