[U-Boot-Users] [RFC 0/2] Make board config available to build system

[Kim Phillips]

On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:00:10 -0600
Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca> wrote:

> This series extracts the u-boot configuration from the config header files
> and makes it usable by the build system.  The obvious application for this
> is to allow conditional compiliation of files without wrapping every file
> with a large #if defined() block (which results in shorter build times).
> 
> This is another step towards using a kconfig style build system.  This step
> just enables make and gcc to have the same configuration data.  Next step
> I think is to allow boards to supply a Kconfig style config file instead
> of a header file (and in this case, do the opposite of this patch; generate
> the header file based on the .config file).  Until all boards are ported
> over, both methods can be supported based on what kind of config file
> (either .h or .config) is present.
> 
> Word of warning: I've most certainly broken stuff in this version.  If
> there is suppport for this direction, then I'll make sure I get it
> sorted out for real.

total ack.  and to the gitignore patch, of course.

Kim