[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] Add support for the MPC8349E-mITX-GP

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Fri Jan 26 22:11:24 CET 2007


In message <20070126111917.50cf05ed.kim.phillips at freescale.com> you wrote:
>
> My reluctance is stemmed from the prediction of the growing number of ifdefs in the config file.  Perhaps the best thing to do here is have the main config file have a single set of ifdefs for each individual board, and include that board's delta config
>  from a sub-board config file.  All common elements remain in the main config file, and if a board define is not matched, #error out.

Distributing the necessary configuration information  for  one  board
over  several  files  does not improve anything. On contrary, it just
makes it more difficult to get an overview of which configuration  is
doing what.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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