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

Stefan Reinauer stefan.reinauer at coresystems.de
Fri May 14 21:26:29 CEST 2010


On 5/14/10 9:19 PM, Myles Watson wrote:
> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Joe Korty <joe.korty at ccur.com> 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

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