[U-Boot] New to u-boot

Anton Staaf robotboy at chromium.org
Mon Jul 11 18:14:02 CEST 2011


Rakesh, you probably want to take a look at the mkconfig script.  It is
responsible for doing much of the board configuration in preparation for
building, including the generation of the top level config.mk that specifies
things like ARCH, CPU and BOARD.

-Anton

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Simon Schwarz <
simonschwarzcor at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi Rakesh,
>
> > I am new to u-boot. I want to understand the flow of u-boot.
> Here is a starting point for you:
> http://marc.info/?t=130381454100002&r=1&w=2
>
> > I did not understand that how board gets configured? in older version of
> > u-boot i can see <board name>_config option in makefile, but in newer
> > version it is not available in Makefile. So where it is?
> boards.cfg has name ARCH, CPU based on this the makefile uses the
> respective sources and config.
> I don't know the actual mechanism in make - but i'am sure someone can
> answer this ;)
>
> Regards
> Simon
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