[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 0/15] Kconfig for U-Boot

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Wed Jul 30 11:08:53 CEST 2014


Hi Masahiro,

On 30 July 2014 09:27, Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m at jp.panasonic.com> wrote:
> Hi Simon,
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> On Mon, 28 Jul 2014 04:43:35 +0100
> Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
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>> Also some thoughts for the future:
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>> 1. The 'menuconfig' option makes it obvious that we are dealing with
>> U-Boot / SPL / TPL. Can we do the same for 'xconfig'?
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> Sorry, I could not understand what you mean.
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> In my rough understanding, 'menuconfig' and 'xconfig' are equivalent
> except the appearance of GUI.
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> What is expactly supported in 'menuconfig' and missing in 'xconfig'?

At the top with menuconfig it shows U-Boot, or SPL, or TPL so it is
clear which one you are configuring. With xconfig I don't see the same
thing. So when you are configuring SPL it is not clear that you are
not in fact configuring the main  U-Boot.

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>> 2. If I do 'make tpl/menuconfig' and there is no TPL defined, I wonder
>> if it should give an error rather than allowing you to edit it?
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> I am not sure if it should.
> Anyway I can do this, if necessary, in a follow-up patch.

OK

Regards,
Simon


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