[U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

[Jon Smirl]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>
> On Apr 21, 2009, at 3:52 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>
>> Dear Kumar Gala,
>>
>> In message <93A8F58D-8C13-4F72-AFF3-CF4FDF9A3CFA at kernel.crashing.org> you
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> In my experience, I tend to search for board names first.
>>>
>>> So back to the root of my question, do we just have one really long
>>> list of board names?
>>
>> I'm not an expert for the capabilities of Kconfig, but one looong list
>> with hundrets of entries clearly makes no sense. We obviously need sum
>> grouping / structuring.
>>
>> IMHO there should be several options:
>>
>> - for those who look for a board name, we should support this,
>>  probably wih an initial selection by the first letter (case
>>  insensitive) of the board name.
>>
>>  like this:     => board name => M => MPC837XERDB

You can search for the board name in Kconfig using Ctrl-F and then put
in a string
This works on the kernel too.

>>
>> - alternatively, it should be possible to restrict the choice by
>>  selecting first processor architecture (ARM, PowerPC, MIPS, ...),
>>  then CPU (family) name, then board names.
>>
>>  like this:     => Architecture => PPC => MPC83xx => MPC837XERDB
>
> I vote for the second one.
>
> Now I'll ask what the location of "defconfig"s should be?
>
> - k
>



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