{arch}/conf/DEFAULTS and uart

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday, September 09, 2010 3:50:45 pm Alexander Best wrote:
> On Thu Sep  9 10, Alexander Best wrote:
> > On Thu Sep  9 10, Alexander Best wrote:
> > > hi there,
> > > 
> > > except for arm most archs seem to enforce uart support in conf/DEFAULTS. is
> > > this really necessary? shouldn't DEFAULTS only contain vital devices/options
> > > without a kernel on a specific arch won't function at all?
> > 
> > jhb just explained to me, that the uart entry in DEFAULTS is not a controller
> > or something like that, but the uart backend to use *if* uart gets defined in
> > the kernel config.
> > 
> > sorry for the noise folks.
> 
> however i found some missing comments and incorrect syntax which i fixed.
> 
> see the attached patch.

I think the ia64 ordering for 'io and mem' is probably more correct
(alphabetically sorted), so I would fix i386 and amd64 and leave ia64 alone.

The powerpc 'machine' changes are wrong I think as it would break GENERIC64
and powerpc64 kernel configs in general.  Nathan purposefully removed
'machine' from the powerpc DEFAULTS.
 
-- 
John Baldwin