Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] Promote heap sizing to first-class Kconfig citizenship.

[Stefan Reinauer]

On 5/14/10 9:19 PM, Myles Watson wrote:
> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Joe Korty  wrote:
> > Promote heap sizing to first-class Kconfig citizenship.
> >
> > Changing the heap size is something that those, like me,
> > with large PCI device trees need to do.  Therefore heap
> > size should appear as a normal, user-answerable question
> > within the Kconfig build system.
>
> I think the difference here is that you're a developer (not a user)
> once you start touching the code.  Users shouldn't have to worry about
> the heap size.  It should be set larger in your mainboard Kconfig if
> the mainboard needs more heap space.

I agree with Myles here. If the heap size is not good enough, coreboot
is broken and needs to be fixed.

Stefan