Re: [PATCH 2/2] arc: hsdk_defconfig: enable CONFIG_ARC_UBOOT_SUPPORT

From: Vineet Gupta
Date: Tue Feb 05 2019 - 11:44:21 EST


On 2/5/19 3:42 AM, Eugeniy Paltsev wrote:
> Hi Corentin,
>
> In case of devboards (like HSDK) we really often disable bootloader and load
> Linux image in memory via JTAG. Enabling CONFIG_ARC_UBOOT_SUPPORT by
> default will break it as we will try to interpret some junk in a registers
> as a pointers to bootargs/etc which aren't set by anyone in case of JTAG using.
>
> So it isn't a good idea to have CONFIG_ARC_UBOOT_SUPPORT enabled by default.

Right.

It is difficult to accommodate everyone's needs (often conflicting) in a single
defconfig.
Can you folks create an out-of-tree defconfig or some such.

-Vineet