[U-Boot] [PATCH v5 03/15] kconfig: add board Kconfig and defconfig files
Simon Glass
sjg at chromium.org
Sat Jul 26 10:36:47 CEST 2014
Hi Masahiro,
On 24 July 2014 05:00, Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m at jp.panasonic.com> wrote:
> This commit adds:
> - arch/${ARCH}/Kconfig
> provide a menu to select target boards
> - board/${VENDOR}/${BOARD}/Kconfig or board/${BOARD}/Kconfig
> set CONFIG macros to the appropriate values for each board
> - configs/${TARGET_BOARD}_defconfig
> default setting of each board
>
> (This commit was automatically generated by a conversion script
> based on boards.cfg)
>
> In Linux Kernel, defconfig files are located under
> arch/${ARCH}/configs/ directory.
> It works in Linux Kernel since ARCH is always given from the
> command line for cross compile.
>
> But in U-Boot, ARCH is not given from the command line.
> Which means we cannot know ARCH until the board configuration is done.
> That is why all the "*_defconfig" files should be gathered into a
> single directory ./configs/.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m at jp.panasonic.com>
Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
My only comment is whether we can split out the ARM boards also? We
could do it by ARM core perhaps.
Regards,
Simon
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