[PATCH 1/2] powerpc/configs: merge pseries_defconfig and pseries_le_defconfig

Denis Kirjanov kda at linux-powerpc.org
Sun May 24 19:19:42 AEST 2015


On 5/24/15, Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org> wrote:
> Hi Cyril,
>
>> These two configs should be identical with the exception of big or
>> little endian
>>
>> The big endian version has XMON_DEFAULT turned on while the little
>> endian has XMON_DEFAULT not set. Enable XMON_DEFAULT for little
>> endian.
>
> I disabled it on the LE defconfig on purpose. In most cases we want to
> get the kernel back around and running again. I got sick of building a
> mainline kernel for a non development box and coming back to it stuck in
> xmon.
>
> Should we disable it by default and require developers who want xmon to
> set the config option, or use the xmon=on boot?

I think that it's a good idea to keep it disabled by default
>
> Anton
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