[U-Boot] Quick guide to Kconfig

[Yan, Miao]

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: u-boot-bounces at lists.denx.de [mailto:u-boot-bounces at lists.denx.de]
> On Behalf Of Masahiro Yamada
> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2014 12:51 PM
> To: u-boot at lists.denx.de
> Subject: [U-Boot] Quick guide to Kconfig
> 
> Hi all,
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> The mainline has switched to Kconfig.
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> Please make sure to use "make <board>_defconfig"
> instead of "make <board>_config".
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> [1] Board Configuration
> 
>      make  <board_name>_defconfig


Do we have a minimal python version requirement ? Because I can
no longer build U-Boot on our build server which still uses python-2.4.x.
There are some 2.6+ only syntax in genboardscfg.py and multiconfig.py. 

Thanks,
Miao


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> [2] Modify configuration
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>  make config,  make menuconfig,  make nconfig, ... etc.
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>  For SPL,
>    make spl/config,  make spl/menuconfig,  make spl/nconfig, ... etc.
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>  For TPL,
>    make tpl/config,  make tpl/menuconfig,  make tpl/nconfig, ... etc.
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>   But there are no useful configurations in Kconfig for now.
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> [3] boards.cfg
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> We no longer have boards.cfg maintained in the git-repo.
> But this file is necessary for MAKEALL and buildman.
> Perhaps it may also be useful for browsing the list of the supported boards.
> 
> You can generate an equivalent one by
> running "tools/genboardscfg.py".
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> [4] MAKEALL and buildman
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> They depend on the boards.cfg file.
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> MAKEALL and buildman automatically generate boards.cfg if it does not exist.
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> Best Regards
> Masahiro Yamada
> 
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