On 13:50 Thu 03 May , Arnd Bergmann wrote:
Hi everyone,
I've been discussing multiplatform kernels with a few people recently, and we will have a lot of discussion sessions about this at Linaro Connect in Hong Kong.
One question that came up repeatedly is whether we should support all possible board files for each platform in a multiplatform kernel, or just the ones that are already using DT probing. I would like to get a quick poll of opinions on that and I've tried to put those people on Cc that would be most impacted by this, i.e. the maintainers for platforms that have both DT and non-DT board files at the moment.
My feeling is that we should just mandate DT booting for multiplatform kernels, because it significantly reduces the combinatorial space at compile time, avoids a lot of legacy board files that we cannot test anyway, reduces the total kernel size and gives an incentive for people to move forward to DT with their existing boards.
Acked-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD plagnioj@jcrosoft.com
The counterargument is that we won't be able to support all the boards we currently do when the user switches on multiplatform, but I think that is acceptable. Note that I would still want to allow users to build platforms separately in order to enable the ATAG style board files, even for platforms that are not multiplatform capable.
Other opinions?
it will also avoid us alot of trouble and work to fix old platform that we can not even test
Best Regards, J.