[U-Boot] [PATCH v7 06/15] kconfig: switch to Kconfig

Masahiro Yamada yamada.m at jp.panasonic.com
Wed Jul 30 04:34:52 CEST 2014


Hi Jeroen,



On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 23:55:35 +0200
Jeroen Hofstee <dasuboot at myspectrum.nl> wrote:

> Hello Masahiro,
> 
> On 29-07-14 23:48, Jeroen Hofstee wrote:
> > Hello Masahiro / Tom,
> >
> > On 29-07-14 12:34, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> >> This commit enables Kconfig.
> >> Going forward, we use Kconfig for the board configuration.
> >> mkconfig will never be used. Nor will include/config.mk be generated.
> >>
> >> Kconfig must be adjusted for U-Boot because our situation is
> >> a little more complicated than Linux Kernel.
> >> We have to generate multiple boot images (Normal, SPL, TPL)
> >> from one source tree.
> >> Each image needs its own configuration input.
> >>
> > <snip>
> >> +# We want to include arch/$(ARCH)/config.mk only when >> include/config/auto.conf
> >> +# is up-to-date. When we switch to a different board configuration, >> old CONFIG
> >> +# macros are still remaining in include/config/auto.conf. Without >> the following
> >> +# gimmick, wrong config.mk would be included leading nasty >> warnings/errors.
> >> +autoconf_is_current := $(if $(wildcard $(KCONFIG_CONFIG)),$(shell >> find \
> >> +        -path ./include/config/auto.conf -newer $(KCONFIG_CONFIG)))
> >
> > fyi, this patchset seems to work remarkably well on FreeBSD, except
> > above line. FreeBSD find requires a directory (dot in this case) as first
> > argument. I will send a patch for it after this got merged, not to > hold this.
> > Just a heads up, since it is likely slightly after the merge window.
> 
> I just saw that Tom asked for a v8. If you do so, can you include this?


Yes, I will.
Thanks for reporting it!


Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada



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