[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/6] ARM: at91: SAMA5: extract the common sama5 chip configurations to a common header

Bo Shen voice.shen at atmel.com
Thu Nov 20 04:40:38 CET 2014


Hello Josh,

On 11/20/2014 11:22 AM, Josh Wu wrote:
> Hi, Bo
>
> On 11/20/2014 9:12 AM, Bo Shen wrote:
>> Hi Josh,
>>
>> On 11/19/2014 07:02 PM, Josh Wu wrote:
>>> This patch series reorganized the configurations for SAMA5 chips.
>>> Make the common part into one file.
>>> That way we don't need to have many copy of the same configurations.
>>
>> Thanks for this patch.
>> However, the u-boot is switching to Kconfig, so in the following time,
>> the configuration option will move to Kconfig. So I think now we keep
>> it as is.
>>
> yes, I understand we'll switch to Kconfig. But the better way is switch
> to Kconfig step by step.

Yes, do it step by step.

> So I think it is a good start to extract the common part of the
> configuration to one file.
> Next step, we can move the common part of configuration to the Kconfig.
> And other different configuration to the _defconfig.

I think won't create new files, just do minus operation till 0. This 
will be easy to track. So, really need new files.

>> I think at this phase, we can move the configuration in header file to
>> Kconfig, maybe this is a good choice.
> Like I said in above, I prefer to do this step by step. So what do you
> think?
>
> Best Regards,
> Josh Wu

Best Regards,
Bo Shen


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