[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 6/7] kconfig: remove unneeded dependency on !SPL_BUILD

Masahiro Yamada yamada.m at jp.panasonic.com
Tue Feb 24 14:36:08 CET 2015


Hi Simon,

On Mon, 23 Feb 2015 07:02:25 -0700
Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:

> Hi Masahiro,
> 
> On 20 February 2015 at 19:37, Masahiro YAMADA <yamada.m at jp.panasonic.com> wrote:
> > Hi Simon,
> >
> >
> > 2015-02-21 11:28 GMT+09:00 Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>:
> >> Hi Masahiro,
> >>
> >> On 20 February 2015 at 17:54, Masahiro YAMADA <yamada.m at jp.panasonic.com> wrote:
> >>> Hi Simon, Stephen,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 2015-02-21 3:39 GMT+09:00 Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> On 20 February 2015 at 10:54, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
> >>>>> On 02/20/2015 10:06 AM, Simon Glass wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> +Stephen
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Hi Masahiro,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On 19 February 2015 at 22:25, Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m at jp.panasonic.com>
> >>>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Now CONFIG_SPL_BUILD is not defined in Kconfig, so
> >>>>>>> "!depends on SPL_BUILD" and "if !SPL_BUILD" are redundant.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>> diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> >>>>>>> index 41f3220..700e2a8 100644
> >>>>>>> --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
> >>>>>>> +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> >>>>>>> @@ -739,9 +739,8 @@ config TEGRA
> >>>>>>>          bool "NVIDIA Tegra"
> >>>>>>>          select SUPPORT_SPL
> >>>>>>>          select SPL
> >>>>>>> -       select OF_CONTROL if !SPL_BUILD
> >>>>>>> -       select CPU_ARM720T if SPL_BUILD
> >>>>>>> -       select CPU_V7 if !SPL_BUILD
> >>>>>>> +       select OF_CONTROL
> >>>>>>> +       select CPU_V7
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Sorry if I have missed something here. On Tegra most unfortunately the
> >>>>>> SPL uses ARMv4t and U-Boot proper uses ARMv7. In fact that is the only
> >>>>>> reason that Tegra has SPL. Doesn't this change with this commit?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> No.   I think behavior is still the same as before.
> >>>
> >>> In a single .config, we cannot define two CPUs in Kconfig.
> >>>
> >>> So, we only define CPU_V7, for the main processors.
> >>>
> >>> For SPL, we override the "CPU" in config.mk
> >>>
> >>> ifdef CONFIG_SPL_BUILD
> >>> ifdef CONFIG_TEGRA
> >>> CPU := arm720t
> >>> endif
> >>> endif
> >>>
> >>> I know what you might be saying is, this is too ugly. Yes.
> >>>
> >>> I think we can do a little better with further rafactoring,
> >>> but the basic idea is, SPL of Tegra is a special case.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Yes I saw that, I understand now. So SPL_BUILD is no longer available
> >> in Kconfig, but is still available in Makefiles, right?
> >
> > Yes, exactly!
> 
> This all works fine on Tegra for me. However I like to suggest
> dropping a few patches in this series.
> 
> I don't think it is worth using ARCH_MALLOC_F_LEN. In fact for me the
> Tegra defconfig looks OK and SPL is built correctly.
> 
> My remaining question is about that Tegra seems to want
> USE_PRIVATE_LIBGCC for SPL but not for U-Boot. I'm not sure why, nor
> whether it matters. It seems to work find using it for both.
> 
> I have pushed my tested tree to u-boot-x86 in branch
> single-kconfig-for-masahiro.
> 
> It contains only these patches:
> 
>  ARM: UniPhier: set CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_F to the global default value
>  kconfig: Adjust ordering so that defaults work as expected
>  kconfig: switch to single .config configuration
>  kconfig: remove unneeded dependency on !SPL_BUILD
> 
> Perhaps we can look at the others later once we get things moved over?
> I think the SYS_MALLOC_F thing is not that big a deal and not urgent
> to resolve if we still have a problem.


OK.  Let's go with these four.

Including SYS_MALLOC_F things makes the point of this series blurred.

I have just posted v5.



Mashiro Yamada


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