[U-Boot] Notes from the U-Boot BOF Meeting in Geneva 2012/07/12

[Scott Wood]

On 07/20/2012 04:34 PM, Graeme Russ wrote:
> Hi Kim & Marek,
> 
> On 07/21/2012 07:09 AM, Marek Vasut wrote:
>> Dear Kim Phillips,
>>
>>> On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 23:30:49 +0200
>>>
>>> Detlev Zundel <dzu at denx.de> wrote:
>>>> as promised, here are my expanded notes from the BoF meeting at LSM2012
>>>> last week.  It was a pleasure to get some core developers into one room
>>>
>>> Any word on Kconfig support?
>>>
>>> Kim
>>
>> I was digging in it for a bit, but then Graeme took over.
> 
> I have started on it - I've ported over the Kbuild infrastructure into a
> dedicated 'kbuild' makefile which is called from the main makefile. This
> make modifications to the existing makefile very minimal
> 
> Now it's just a case of building all the Kconfig files which is, to say the
> least, a massive task. I have a lot of other things going on, so
> unfortunately progress is slow

How about a transitional phase, where a symbol can either be a kconfig
symbol or handled the old way via the board config file?  That way,
custodians/maintainers could handle the conversion of their own symbols
(with the expectation that this be done within a reasonable timeframe).

-Scott