[U-Boot] [ANNOUNCE] Kconfig support

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Robert,

just to put a few points right:

In message <20090421070431.GX5367 at pengutronix.de> you wrote:
>
> So our intention was and is:
> 
> 1. Wolfgang has a focus on stability and gradual changes. We respect this
>    political position because it is a *good* one.

This is not quite correct. What  I  consider  important  is  an  evo-
lutionary path - this may include bigger changes and reorganizations,
but  I  consider  it a bad idea to not provide a reasonable migration
path for larger parts of the existing community.


> 3. It was an active decision from our team *not* to fork and call it
>    something else than U-Boot(-v2) when we started. We see that the
>    U-Boot community is strong, it has long term aims and last but not
>    least, it has a *great* bootloader. We talked to Wolfgang before
>    doing so, and Wolfgang's position was in the spirit of "go ahead,
>    here is a git tree, and let the community decide".

This is actually wrong. When we talked about these  things,  you  had
already  performed  a  split, and had a up-and-running implementation
behind your (kind of closed) doors. It was me who asked you  to  make
this existing code openly available.

What I missed, and what I  still  consider  a  big  chance  that  was
missed, is any public discussion about such a new design - before the
actual  work  was  started,  or  at  least  before  such  irrevocable
decisions were made as not to consider any form of an upgrade path.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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