Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [22/26] MIPS: generic: Introduce generic DT-based board support | From | Guenter Roeck <> | Date | Mon, 20 Nov 2017 06:03:21 -0800 |
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On 11/20/2017 02:25 AM, James Hogan wrote: > On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 07:43:25PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 04:37:21PM +0100, Paul Burton wrote: >>> Introduce a "generic" platform, which aims to be board-agnostic by >>> making use of device trees passed by the boot protocol defined in the >>> MIPS UHI (Universal Hosting Interface) specification. Provision is made >>> for supporting boards which use a legacy boot protocol that can't be >>> changed, but adding support for such boards or any others is left to >>> followon patches. >>> >>> Right now the built kernels expect to be loaded to 0x80100000, ie. in >>> kseg0. This is fine for the vast majority of MIPS platforms, but >>> nevertheless it would be good to remove this limitation in the future by >>> mapping the kernel via the TLB such that it can be loaded anywhere & map >>> itself appropriately. >>> >>> Configuration is handled by dynamically generating configs using >>> scripts/kconfig/merge_config.sh, somewhat similar to the way powerpc >>> makes use of it. This allows for variations upon the configuration, eg. >>> differing architecture revisions or subsets of driver support for >>> differing boards, to be handled without having a large number of >>> defconfig files. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com> >> >> Guess it is known that this patch causes failures when building >> "allmodconfig" on test systems such as 0day; it was reported by 0day >> some two months ago. nevertheless, the patch found its way into mainline >> without fix. Does anyone care, or should I simply disable "allmodconfig" >> test builds for mips ? > > Hi Guenter, > > I can't find any emails from 0day in relation to this patch (I've also > dug about on the kbuild-all archives without success). Could you link to > or quote the build failure you're referring to. > > Thanks > James >
It was much older than two months, actually.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/12/15/33
Guenter
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