[U-Boot] [PATCH] cmd: move CMD_PXE to Kconfig

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Wed Nov 16 15:04:30 CET 2016


On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 8:59 PM, Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> wrote:
> Currently, CMD_PXE is forcibly enabled in config_distro_defaults.h, so
> that general purpose distributions can rely on it being defined. This
> header is included, under conditions or not, by various archs or
> famillies of archs / SoCs.
>
> However, it is very possible that boards based on those SoCs will not
> have a physical ethernet connector at all, even if the have a MAC; for
> example, the Nanopi Neo AIR (sunxi H3) does not. It is also possible
> that network booting is absolutely not necessary for a device.
>
> However, it is not possible to disable the PXE command, as it is
> forcibly enabled and is non-configurable.
>
> But it turns out we already have a config option to build a distro-ready
> image, in the name of DISTRO_DEFAULTS.
>
> Move CMD_PXE out of the hard-coded config_distro_defaults.h into a
> Kconfig option, that gets selected by DISTRO_DEFAULTS when it is set.

So this changes the default expectation on all boards that currently
use distro defaults?

> Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
> Cc: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger at ni.com>
> ---
>  Kconfig                          | 1 +
>  cmd/Kconfig                      | 5 +++++
>  include/config_distro_defaults.h | 2 --
>  3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Kconfig b/Kconfig
> index 1263d0b..5421cd3 100644
> --- a/Kconfig
> +++ b/Kconfig
> @@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ config DISTRO_DEFAULTS
>         select CMD_BOOTZ if ARM && !ARM64
>         select CMD_BOOTI if ARM64
>         select CMD_DHCP
> +       select CMD_PXE
>         select CMD_EXT2
>         select CMD_EXT4
>         select CMD_FAT
> diff --git a/cmd/Kconfig b/cmd/Kconfig
> index e339d86..95f5ce6 100644
> --- a/cmd/Kconfig
> +++ b/cmd/Kconfig
> @@ -496,6 +496,11 @@ config CMD_DHCP
>         help
>           Boot image via network using DHCP/TFTP protocol
>
> +config CMD_PXE
> +       bool "pxe"
> +       help
> +         Boot image via network using PXE protocol
> +
>  config CMD_NFS
>         bool "nfs"
>         default y
> diff --git a/include/config_distro_defaults.h b/include/config_distro_defaults.h
> index b5efab5..01cd6d9 100644
> --- a/include/config_distro_defaults.h
> +++ b/include/config_distro_defaults.h
> @@ -20,8 +20,6 @@
>  #define CONFIG_BOOTP_PXE
>  #define CONFIG_BOOTP_SUBNETMASK
>
> -#define CONFIG_CMD_PXE
> -
>  #define CONFIG_CMDLINE_EDITING
>  #define CONFIG_AUTO_COMPLETE
>  #define CONFIG_SYS_LONGHELP
> --
> 2.7.4
>
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