[U-Boot] [ANNOUNCE] ARM config scheme for board and machine update

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Sat Jun 13 21:06:36 CEST 2009


Dear Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD,

In message <20090613150259.GH25406 at game.jcrosoft.org> you wrote:
> 
> 	Currently boards and arch define there own CONFIG_IXP or CONFIG_VCMA9
> 	where they are also have a define in the mach-types.h
> 
> 	so now to simplify linux code share and reduce duplicate define
> 	we switch to the linux style (please check the mach-types.h for it)
> 
> 	CONFIG_ARCH_xxx for arch
> 	and
> 	CONFIG_MACH_xxx for machine
> 
> 	for board and arch that are send precedently to this announce
> 	will not have to switch to be ack but it will nice to do it.
> 	We will switch the current one step by step
> 
> 	For other arch and board it will be mandotory
> 
> 	The Kconfig support will be send with in days and it will be also
> 	mandatory to have switch to it before be include in it's Kconfig files

How is this supposed to work with non-ARM architectures?

I don't want to see ARM-only code in U-Boot. If we change  the  board
configuration  etc.,  then  please in a way that works for all boards
and architectures.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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