[U-Boot] [RFC] Supporting multiple variants of an SoC

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Tom Rini,

In message <20130702162829.GG16630 at bill-the-cat> you wrote:
> 
> That said, when others have suggested something like this before,
> Wolfgang has pointed out and NAK'd the idea of adding N different
> configuration as that adds (potentially) a lot of build time for
> custodians/etc that tend to build --soc or --arch or other group
> targets.  So, what do we want to do here?  I guess longer term, if we
> are able to focus on switching to Kconfig, it would become we provide a
> generic defconfig for am335x (or imx6 or ...) with a best-fit-for-all
> set and communities can provide tweaked binaries as needed.  But do we
> want to think about any stop-gap solutions here?

You can always add extra defines on the make command line...

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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