[U-Boot] [ANNOUNCE] Kconfig support

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Mon Apr 20 17:39:52 CEST 2009


On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Sascha Hauer <sha at pengutronix.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:20:50AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Well as you said at the moment there is not much community around
> u-boot-v2, so it's basically *our* time which we waste, and we are free
> to do so. At the moment it seems you're wasting *your* time by warming
> up this stupid discussion which Jerry already led to a nice ending.

Indeed.  Let this thread die.  There is nothing wrong with v2 going
off and trying something new.

g.

-- 
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.


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