Subject: Steps to submit a new arch/arm port

From: [email-masked] (Mason)
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 11:21:15 +0200

On 23/09/2015 11:13, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 10:49:25AM +0200, Mason wrote:
>> In my platform Kconfig, something along the lines of
>>
>> config ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT
>> 	int
>> 	default 5 if !ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM
> 
> How would that be useful to you?  Arnd is saying that you will always
> need ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM selected to build your platform.
> 
> This symbol doesn't automatically turn off just because you only have
> one platform enabled.

I must be missing the big picture for ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM.

I thought modern ports /had/ to support it, but that it could
be disabled locally to build a single platform kernel?

Regards.