[U-Boot] [PATCH 5/5] x86: Only compile dts file for a specific board

[Bin Meng]

Hi Simon,

On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> Hi Bin,
>
> On 23 December 2014 at 22:06, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Right now all dts files under arch/x86/dts are compiled. This is
>> not necessary so update the Makefile to only compile dts file for
>> a specific board.
>
> I'd rather that we go the other way - making the boards more common.
> If I can get the Minnowmax spun up I am going to try to unify the
> support such that we can build an image that will boot on all the x86
> boards. This would require:
>
> - a set of operations and data provided by each board (how to do CAR,
> whether to use FSP, how to detect the board, etc.)
> - allowing a board config to enable multiple arch types, like
> ivybridge and atom, for example
> - allow multiple device trees, FSPs, microcodes, etc. to reside in the image
>
> One benefit is easier programming, if we can have an image that is
> common to many boards - we don't need to worry so much about breaking
> a different board if most things are common. Also we retain the option
> to build just for a single target.
>
> I feel that if we get the structure for this in place now, it will be
> relatively easy to build on, whereas trying to retrofit it later would
> be too hard.
>

The idea of making the boards support more common sounds good to me.
We will see how far we can go.

Regards,
Bin