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

[Stephen Warren]

On 04/18/2014 09:55 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
> 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 :)

Right, but why should that be part of the standard distro config, which
isn't Grub2, but rather pxe/sysboot?