[Buildroot] [PATCH 3/4] arch: do not distinguish revisions of ARM1136JF-S

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Mon Sep 15 21:48:41 UTC 2014


Thomas, All,

On 2014-09-15 23:39 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 23:33:39 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > > Note that the removal of the two options should not break existing
> > > full .config, since the hidden option BR2_arm1136jf_s becomes again a
> > > visible option to select the CPU.
> > 
> > But it would break a defconfig.
> 
> Right. But I believe that when we change the default value of an
> option, we also break a defconfig, and we don't include that as part of
> the Config.in.legacy handling (but also because it's obviously more
> complicated).
> 
> > As suggested on IRC, move the BR2_arm1136jf_s_r1 to Config.legacy, and
> > have it select BR2_arm1136jf_s, so the user can re-use a defconfig.
> 
> Hum, why just BR2_arm1136jf_s_r1 and not BR2_arm1136jf_s_r0 ?

Yes, of course.

I re-did my mental flow, and not having _r0 in legacy does not fly.
We need both in legacy, indeed.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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