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

[Graeme Russ]

Hi Scott,

On 07/21/2012 07:40 AM, Scott Wood wrote:
> 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).

Well the plan in to have 'make xyz_config' produce the equivalent .config
file (which it pretty much does anyway) - You can then use Kconfig to tweak
the board config

Or use Kconfig to create a config from scratch

Regards,

Graeme