[U-Boot] [PATCH v8 05/13] kconfig: switch to Kconfig

[Masahiro Yamada]

Hi Stephen,


On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 17:05:21 -0600
Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:

> On 07/29/2014 11:08 PM, 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.
> >
> > Usage:
> >
> > Run "make <board>_defconfig" to do the board configuration.
> 
> This is quite unfortunate; it breaks any scripts that were building U-Boot via "make <board>_config; make". Can't we add another rule to allow the old build commands to work?


Technically, yes. I think we can.

But I do not like having it permanently.


So, we support both *_defconfig and *_config for a while (maybe 6 months or so?)
and then remove *_config.

Deal?



> Otherwise, I guess I'll have to hack my scripts to check whether e.g. scripts/multiconfig.py (which was added in this commit) is present in the tree, and execute different build commands based on that...


Do you mean, you need to build some different versions of U-boot ?




Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada