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Message-ID: <da25dc33-addb-298d-103a-fcf1cf0e6793@linaro.org>
Date:   Tue, 28 Apr 2020 20:31:53 +0200
From:   Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
To:     Saravana Kannan <saravanak@...gle.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     Sandeep Patil <sspatil@...roid.com>,
        Baolin Wang <baolin.wang7@...il.com>,
        Orson Zhai <orsonzhai@...il.com>,
        Chunyan Zhang <zhang.lyra@...il.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@...roid.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] drivers/clocksource/timer-of: Remove __init markings

On 28/04/2020 20:23, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 12:02 AM Daniel Lezcano
> <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi Saravana,
> 
> You were replying to Sandeep :)

Oh, right :)

Sorry Sandeep. Thanks for taking the time to elaborate a clear statement
of the GKI.

[ ... ]

>> That was my understanding of the GKI, thanks for confirming.
>>
>> Putting apart the non-technical aspect of these changes, the benefit I
>> see is the memory usage optimization regarding the single kernel image.
>>
>> With the ARM64 defconfig, multiple platforms and their corresponding
>> drivers are compiled-in. It results in a big kernel image which fails to
>> load because of overlapping on DT load address (or something else). When
>> that is detected, it is fine to adjust the load addresses, otherwise it
>> is painful to narrow down the root cause.
>>
>> In order to prevent this, we have to customize the defconfig each
>> version release.
> 
> Sorry, I'm not sure I understand where you are going with this. Are
> you agreeing to pick up this change?

Right. I agree with the change but I would like to have Thomas opinion
on this before picking the patch.

Thomas ?


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