[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/3] Makefile: rework / cleanup

Detlev Zundel dzu at denx.de
Tue May 18 11:05:05 CEST 2010


Hi Wolfgang,

> The top level Makefile is growing and growing. Once, wehn we suppoted
> only a few tens of boards, it was possible to implement board
> configuration logic in the Makefile, but it quickly turned out that
> this doesn't scale. Also, it is not really needed (at least not any
> more) - we noch have mechanisnms in place, that allow for more
> efficient code.
>
> The following patch series is an attempt to start some cleanup and
> reduce the size of the top level Makefile.  The solution is neither
> perfect nor complete - there are quite a lot of boards that resist
> such a cleanup and need more thorough cleanup.  But it's an initial
> step, showing what could and should be done, which boards have
> problems, and why this is the case.  Eentually this paves the ground
> for a more friendly way to add new board configurations.

Wow, thanks for these cleanups.  This is absolutely a good direction to
simplify the makefile.  For all three parts you have my

Acked-by: Detlev Zundel <dzu at denx.de>

Cheers
  Detlev

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