[U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

[Jon Smirl]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Apr 20, 2009, at 5:01 PM, Jon Smirl wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> In chatting w/Wolfgang on IRC he felt that we should maintain the
>>>> highlevel picking a board implies ARCH and other settings.
>>>>
>>>> However this seems like a lot of boards in one list.. To get a rough
>>>> order of magnitude MAKEALL is ~880 lines.  How can we reduce this to
>>>> make it a bit more manageable?
>>>
>>> I'd arrange them by vendor. The vendor kconfig variable doesn't need
>>> to be used in code generation.
>>
>> Assuming boards/ is grouped by vendor today:
>>
>> $ ls -1 board/ | wc -l
>> 269
>>
>> still seems like a long list.
>
> Everyone will know the vendor of their board. You could alphabetize
> and break the list into groups. I think there are some entries in
> board/ that should be combined and moved into vendor subdirs.

There are a lot of boards that could be moved into a vendor subdirs. I
suspect we have less than 100 vendors. Maybe as few as 60.

Don't some of these ads board belong in the freescale dir?
jonsmirl at terra:/home/apps/u-boot/board$ ls *ads* -d
ads5121  adsvix  fads  mpc8260ads  mpc8266ads  mpc8540ads  mpc8560ads
mx1ads  mx31ads

>
> I believe Kconfig is flexible enough you could have two ways of
> selecting a board. By arch/cpu or by vendor.
>
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>> - k
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> Jon Smirl
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