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

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD,

In message <20090613191644.GL25406 at game.jcrosoft.org> you wrote:
>
> > > 	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.
> I want to have this sync to simplify it.
> This can be extended to the all boards if you want.

By adapting the mach-id to all other architectures? 

Only over my dead body.

> For arm all the board and arch config is defined in the mach-types.h so I use
> it as reference but for other arch the idea can be the same and based if you
> prefer in the Kconfig linux files

I prefer that we do not use the mach-id for anything unless it is
absolutely impossible to avoid it for compatibility with Linux.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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