[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/1] MX5:MX53: support for freescale MX53LOCO board

[Jason Liu]

Hi, Wolfgang,

2011/2/22 Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de>:
> Dear Liu Hui-R64343,
>
> In message <2CF7613B9822A943BEF13EF7ACEC5BD114A316 at 039-SN1MPN1-003.039d.mgd.msft.net> you wrote:
>>
>> >As I discovered myself, usage of config.mk is discouraged and it should be
>> >removed and it is not accepted anymore for new boards. Instead of that, it is
>> >possible to add CONFIG_ options in boards.cfg.
>>
>> OK, do you know why config.mk is discouraged?
>
> There are seeral reasons, the most prominent being
>
> 1) because it's simply not needed in 95% of all cases
>
> 2) because it's bad to distribute vital configuration information into
>   several independent files
>
> and
>
> 3) because we're preparing the grounds for a Kconfig based setup so we
>   want to have all config options controlled by a single mechanism
>   (board config file).

OK,  get it. Thanks for the detailed information.

>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>
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