[U-Boot] Quick guide to Kconfig

Hans de Goede hdegoede at redhat.com
Mon Aug 4 17:35:17 CEST 2014


Hi,

On 08/04/2014 04:27 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 01:37:54PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> 
> [snip]
>> We had multiple entries in boards.cfg per board
>> (with some differences in the options field)
>> and I generated the correspoing defconfig files.
>>
>> But I guess it would be painful to maintain lots of defconfigs.
>>
>> I expect board maintainers will consolidate defconfigs like you are
>> trying to do, and eventually, we will have one defconfig per board in
>> the future.
> 
> So I was thinking about this a bit this morning since I have lots of
> defconfigs I want to merge together as well (see am335x_evm*).  I
> suspect the answer is board maintainers will want a README in their
> directory.  But today we're inconsistent in a few places.  First, it's
> most often board/.../README but we have a few README.somethings (I'm
> guilty there too.  And despite 702e601 we have some board-level (I'd
> consider at least) details in docs/ still.
> 
> Would board/sunxi/README work for the sunxi cases?  Or is that going to
> get too unwieldy?

board/sunxi/README will work fine for sunxi documentation as far as I
can see right now.

Regards,

Hans


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