Re: [GIT PULL] Second set of RISC-V updates for v5.5-rc1

[Paul Walmsley]

Alistair, Anup,

On Wed, 4 Dec 2019, Alistair Francis wrote:

> On Wed, 2019-12-04 at 18:22 +0530, Anup Patel wrote:
>
> > I had commented on your patch but my comments are still
> > not addressed.
> > 
> > Various debug options enabled by this patch have performance
> > impact. Instead of enabling these debug options in primary
> > defconfigs, I suggest to have separate debug defconfigs with
> > these options enabled.
> 
> +1
> 
> OE uses the defconfig (as I'm sure other distros do) and slowing down
> users seems like a bad idea.

While I respect your points of view, our defconfigs are oriented towards 
kernel developers.  This is particularly important when right now the only 
RISC-V hardware on the market are test chips.  Our expectation is that 
distros and benchmarkers will create their own Kconfigs for their needs.

Going forward, we'll probably add a few more validation and debug options, 
as Palmer suggested during the patch discussion.


- Paul