[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/7] linux: add option to rely on a bootloader-provided DTB
Peter Korsgaard
peter at korsgaard.com
Thu Jan 1 23:15:24 UTC 2015
>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:
Hi,
> Dear Yann E. MORIN,
> On Thu, 1 Jan 2015 22:58:45 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
>> However, I beg to disagree on that last part: I think we should have
>> this as an option in Buildroot.
>>
>> The reason is that some platforms can be built with or without support
>> for the device tree. The Raspberry Pi is but one such platform; there
>> are others. Their defconfig do not always enable USE_OF by default, it
>> must be a volunteer selection from the user.
>>
>> In that case, your opinion is to delegate to the user the responsibility
>> to enable that on his own, right? So, it would no longer be possible to
>> use in-tree defconfigs for those boards, for example.
> Well, to me this is a slippery slope. There are gazillions of kernel
> options that do platform-specific stuff. So far, we really tried hard
> to limit how much Buildroot modifies the kernel options, and tried to
> limit that to cases related to userspace components enabled by the user
> that really need some feature in the kernel.
> Let's see what Peter thinks about this, he might very well have a
> different opinion on this.
I must say I'm with Thomas on this one. Let's not fiddle with the kernel
.config unless we really _HAVE_ to.
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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