[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 1/4] Adapt config.mk for usage in spl/Makefile

[Aneesh V]

Dear Wolfgang,

On Friday 08 July 2011 05:55 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Daniel Schwierzeck,
>
> In message<CACUy__VhV1_eXGW1NuSgLEB1nyVJ51xUXa0vwbY3Tdb=Kvmp2w at mail.gmail.com>  you wrote:
>>
>>>> +# Allow compiling of C and ASM code parts in different way.
>>>> +# Serves also as a replacement for CONFIG_PRELOADER.
>>>> +ifneq ($(CONFIG_UBOOT_SPL_BUILD),)
>>>> +CPPFLAGS += -DCONFIG_UBOOT_SPL_BUILD
>>>> +endif
>>>
>>> I don't understand this comment.
>>
>> Currently we have CONFIG_PRELOADER (and maybe others?) to conditionally
>> compile start.S and other code. The idea here is to consolidate those defines
>> and to use a common name convention for SPL. My suggestion is something
>> like CONFIG_UBOOT_SPL_BUILD. Are there better ideas?
>
> No, I agree with you.  I just don't understand the comment above, i. e.
> in which way does this "allow compiling of C and ASM code parts in
> different way"?   CPPFLAGS applies the same to .c and .S files, and I
> don't see a how this setting would cause different options to be used
> for C versus assembler code.

Do you confirm on replacing all instances of CONFIG_PRELOADER with
CONFIG_UBOOT_SPL_BUILD?

best regards,
Aneesh