[U-Boot] [ANNOUNCE] Kconfig support

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Mon Apr 20 21:58:42 CEST 2009


On Apr 20, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:

> Dear Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD,
>
> In message <20090420120239.GC19818 at game.jcrosoft.org> you wrote:
>>
>>> Beyond adding Kconfig's what's left to be done?
>> I've write a first batch of the generic Kconfig
>> for commmands, env, fs, disk, lib_generic and drivers
>>
>> I've start to add the at91 arm arch Kconfig files
>>
>> currently you can generate a .config and su defconfig
>>
>> the autoconf.h header is generated
>> and the Kconfig customisation is started also
>>
>> I've in mind to start by adding a arm arch with its boards
>> and merge them to the defconfig instead of the old way
>> but it's not already integreated
>>
>> it will be nice to help me by doing the same for other arch
>> and improve the kconfig integeration and generic file
>
> Can you please start SMALL?
>
> I mean: don't implement EVERYTHING before you post anything. You run
> the risk that one of your basic assumptions in the very first patch
> might not be accepted, and all the remaining effort is lost and has to
> be redone.
>
> Publish your stuff EARLY!!!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk

I agree with Wolfgang.  There are some discussion points (for example  
generation of src files vs pre-gen files being committed).

- k


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