[PATCH 4/4] configs: am64x_evm_a53_defconfig: Enable NAND

[Tom Rini]

On Tue, Jan 09, 2024 at 02:00:14PM -0600, Nishanth Menon wrote:
> On 14:48-20240109, Tom Rini wrote:
> [...]
> > > > -- 
> > > > 2.34.1
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Why not a config fragment?
> > 
> > To me, this makes sense to keep in the main config. It can be turned off
> > as needed, and at run time if it's not present, it's safe.
> 
> Three reasons:
> * There is going to be duplication across multiple boards
> * It confuses the affair of trying to find the minimal configuration needed
>   to boot the board.
> * SRAM is limited already - we have been playing all kind of dances
>   around this - NAND is a daughter card addon - while I am not trying to
>   diminish NAND support, we are in a constant struggle to keep SRAM
>   viable and adding additional boot modes to a single config, IMHO is
>   the wrong direction to go.

At the end of the day, I'll leave it to TI folks. I see that
drivers/mtd/Kconfig needs a whole lot of help as while I would have
hoped that turning off just CONFIG_MTD would undo most of the changes
here, it does not.

-- 
Tom
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