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.bur...@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 ? Guenter