[U-Boot] [PATCH v7 06/15] kconfig: switch to Kconfig

Jeroen Hofstee dasuboot at myspectrum.nl
Tue Jul 29 23:55:35 CEST 2014


Hello Masahiro,

On 29-07-14 23:48, Jeroen Hofstee wrote:
> Hello Masahiro / Tom,
>
> On 29-07-14 12:34, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>> This commit enables Kconfig.
>> Going forward, we use Kconfig for the board configuration.
>> mkconfig will never be used. Nor will include/config.mk be generated.
>>
>> Kconfig must be adjusted for U-Boot because our situation is
>> a little more complicated than Linux Kernel.
>> We have to generate multiple boot images (Normal, SPL, TPL)
>> from one source tree.
>> Each image needs its own configuration input.
>>
> <snip>
>> +# We want to include arch/$(ARCH)/config.mk only when 
>> include/config/auto.conf
>> +# is up-to-date. When we switch to a different board configuration, 
>> old CONFIG
>> +# macros are still remaining in include/config/auto.conf. Without 
>> the following
>> +# gimmick, wrong config.mk would be included leading nasty 
>> warnings/errors.
>> +autoconf_is_current := $(if $(wildcard $(KCONFIG_CONFIG)),$(shell 
>> find \
>> +        -path ./include/config/auto.conf -newer $(KCONFIG_CONFIG)))
>
> fyi, this patchset seems to work remarkably well on FreeBSD, except
> above line. FreeBSD find requires a directory (dot in this case) as first
> argument. I will send a patch for it after this got merged, not to 
> hold this.
> Just a heads up, since it is likely slightly after the merge window.

I just saw that Tom asked for a v8. If you do so, can you include this?

Thanks,
Jeroen


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