[coreboot] [PATCH] v3: fix Kconfig dependencies, update defconfigs

ron minnich rminnich at gmail.com
Mon Aug 18 19:09:24 CEST 2008


On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de> wrote:
> Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
>> On 18.08.2008 18:57, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
>>
>>> ron minnich wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 9:48 AM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
>>>> <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> It seems the K8 code is using CONFIG_LOGICAL_CPUS for that.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> I think the config logical cpus is for multicore. The name is
>>>> confusing and I intend to change it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> CONFIG_SMP does only control spinlocks and enables the LAPIC
>>>>> unconditionally.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>> - Should CONFIG_IOAPIC be selectable on GeodeLX and Qemu? Maybe for Qemu.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> not sure on LX but it is unlikely?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Jordan says the LX doesn't support it.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> so the option should not be available.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Those options are part of the hardware description, not real user
>>> options. They're there only because of short comings of our current dts
>>> scheme.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> If they are not user options, they shouldn't be selectable at all.
>>
>
> Not in the user interface. Indeed.
>
> And, correctly, they were not selectable by the user.
>
> Please, guys, don't fix stuff that ain't broken.
>

I didn't see that they were selectable by the user.

Not all Kconfig variables are selectable by the user; they should be
there nonetheless, I assume. Let me know if I made a mistake in some
of the setup. We can fix the non-broken stuff I "fixed".

ron




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