[U-Boot] Cloning, Maybe silly question

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Pink Boy,

In message <959751.81577.qm at web31812.mail.mud.yahoo.com> you wrote:
> 
> I have a suggestion/question.
> 
> Would it be easy, hard, silly to add a CLONE command to the make 
> file?  (Are a separate make script?)  So if someone wants to create 
> a new board based on an existing board they could just type,

Easy and silly. You cannot do such stuff automatically without doing
stupid things like copying a lot of code that either is board specific
or should be shared.

> The make file would clone the at91sam9263ek board configuration
> and put it in a new directory called myboard and update the 
> makefile?

And what would that save you? 2 minutes of work in a one man-week
task?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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If it has syntax, it isn't user friendly.