[U-Boot] [ANNOUNCE] Kconfig support

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Mon Apr 20 17:20:50 CEST 2009


On Monday 20 April 2009 10:53:39 Robert Schwebel wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:42:08AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > U-Boot-v2 is used here to do real work in our projects. If it isn't
> > > what you need, it is perfectly fine if you ignore it.
> >
> > my concern isnt really narrow to the Blackfin port. i was using it as
> > a practical example. we've talked about v2 in the past as the answer
> > to many of our problems and so we dont bother doing it in v1. but that
> > approach looks to be wrong as v2 is of little practical importance.
> > instead we should be doing what Jean-Christophe is doing: poaching
> > good ideas until we get to the point where v2 can simply die.
>
> If you mean "you" while saying "we", then yes, it may be correct that
> this is your plan. "We" don't have any plans to let v2 die.
>
> Should we be mindful of the future? But not at the expense of the
> moment. Be mindful of the living Force, my young Padawan.

i never said "kill it now"; quite the opposite really.  in fact, it looks like 
you really arent taking your own saying to heart.  my point is to look to the 
future and stop wasting resources.  if v1 incorporates all the features of v2, 
then v2 has no purpose at all except to split development and waste peoples 
time.  the approach set out originally was to keep v1 usable while we look at 
getting v2 up to feature parity of v1.  but apparently v2 has no interest at 
all with the larger community to actually make that happen.  that doesnt sound 
like the open source spirit, that sounds like "i'll play with my toys over 
here and everyone else can do what they like".
-mike
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