[U-Boot] RFQ: Makefile cleanup

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Rogan Dawes,

In message <4CAD569E.3020706 at dawes.za.net> you wrote:
>
> Keep in mind that the Linux folk are looking for an alternative to the
> defconfig mess that they have currently.
> 
> Linus has stated that he will delete all the ARM defconfigs soon.

I think the current Linux approach is focussed on generating single
kernel images that can be used on as many as possible platforms. This
is needed for things like building Linux distributions and such.

U-Boot, on the other hand, is very much bound to specific hardware
configurations, and at least so far (*) we will always need secial
configurations for each board.  This makes a pretty much fundamental
difference.

(*) We discussed before to auto-configure U-Boot for example based on
a device tee description of the hardware. But it is still a long way
to go.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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