Re: [PATCH 4/9] ARM: add CONFIG_PHYS_OFFSET default values

From: Nicolas Pitre
Date: Fri Feb 19 2016 - 12:31:11 EST


On Fri, 19 Feb 2016, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> On Friday 19 February 2016 11:10:22 Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > On Fri, 19 Feb 2016, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >
> > > On Thursday 18 February 2016 11:02:33 Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >
> > > > Is there a way to provide a default for defaults?
> ...
> > > and then select one of the bool symbols from each platform.
> > > Would that address your question?
> >
> > Yes, but the ugliness factor isn't worth it IMHO.
> >
> > I was wondering if something like this was possible:
> >
> > config PHYS_OFFSET
> > hex "Physical address of main memory" if MMU
> > default DRAM_BASE if !MMU
> > default 0x10000000 if FOO
> > default 0x20000000 if BAR
> > default 0x30000000 if BAZ
> > default 0x00000000
> >
>
> Ah, that was my previous approach, but Russell didn't like
> how it makes it easier to fall back to an incorrect address
> instead of forcing a build error when the address is not
> configured.

Makes sense.

Yet, the only reason for a default here is to accommodate automatic
build tests like randconfig, right?

If so then this should be "fixed" by having the config system provide
built-in symbols that can be tested from kconfig files. This way you
could terminate the above list with:

default 0x00000000 if RANDCONFIG || ALLYESCONFIG

or the like.


Nicolas