Re: Arm and allyesconfig, allnoconfig, allmodconfig and randconfig

From: Jack Stone
Date: Thu Apr 30 2009 - 08:17:46 EST




On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:33 +0100, "Russell King - ARM Linux"
<linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Patches welcome.

Is this the sort of thing you meant? I don't know if the text or
location is correct so comments are very welcome.

Thanks,

Jack

Document that ARM doesn't support all*config

From: Jack Stone <jwjstone@xxxxxxxxxxx>

ARM doesn't support all*config. This is because it does not make sense
as
there are so many different variants. Instead the defconfigs should be
used.

Signed-off-by: Jack Stone <jwjstone@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---

Documentation/arm/README | 3 +++
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/arm/README b/Documentation/arm/README
index d98783f..8239e5f 100644
--- a/Documentation/arm/README
+++ b/Documentation/arm/README
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ Compilation of kernel
(arch/arm/boot/Image). A compressed image can be built by doing a
'make zImage' instead of 'make Image'.

+ NOTE: ARM Linux doesn't support the all*config targets. This is
because of
+ the number of variants supported. The defconfig targets should be
used
+ instead.

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