Subject: [PATCH 26/30] ARM: omap: add board autoselection

From: [email-masked] (Tony Lindgren)
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 08:57:52 -0700

* Arnd Bergmann <[email-masked]> [111004 00:10]:
> On Monday 03 October 2011, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > * Arnd Bergmann <[email-masked]> [111003 02:20]:
> > > On Monday 03 October 2011 11:27:44 Cousson, Benoit wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > In the long run, I'd hope we can just get rid of these for subarchitectures
> > > > > that support device tree probing and make the device tree based machine
> > > > > description unconditional.
> > > > 
> > > > This is really our goal, we will have soon the board-generic.c for that, 
> > > > someone will just have to migrate these ~30 board files to device tree 
> > > > DTS files 
> > > 
> > > For the purpose of build-time validation using randconfig, there is no
> > > problem in keeping some board files forever, as long as the generic board
> > > file is always built-in.
> > 
> > Yes please leave out the list so we don't need to constantly update it.
> > Let's just always build in MACH_OMAP_GENERIC.
> 
> That's what I had initially, but now that board file has become
> omap2-specific and no longer works on omap3-only or omap4-only
> configurations.

Will send a pull request for basic DT bootstrap support from Benoit
that fixes that. So maybe let's sort that out first, then always
select it?

Regards,

Tony