[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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