[U-Boot] config: enable CONFIG_API in distro config

[Tom Rini]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 09:44:44AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 04/18/2014 09:35 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 03:55:48PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> > 
> >> From: Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org>
> >>
> >> CONFIG_API is needed for u-boot apps such as grub2, so enable it for
> >> distro config.
> >>
> >> Cc: Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us>
> >> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org>
> > 
> > This breaks a number of boards that have opted in to the distro config.
> > The full list is:
> > whistler trimslice beaver tec paz00 ventana cardhu harmony dalmore
> > plutux medcom-wide rpi_b venice2 colibri_t20_iris tec-ng seaboard
> 
> Hmm. That's all or most Tegra boards. What's the break?
> 
> That said, I wonder why we need CONFIG_API in the distro config; the
> purpose of that config is to allow the "pxe" and "sysboot" commands not
> to work. If we start supporting all kinds of other random boot
> mechanisms, we'll just end up with a fragmented mess, rather than a
> unified boot mechanism.

It's to add grub2, as Rob says :)  But the breakage is over things like
CONFIG_SYS_MAX_MMC_DEVICE, and a few other things (that's just the
common one, but I still saw some breakage when I set that to 2 for tegra
stuff).

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Tom
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