[U-Boot] [PATCH] rpi: remove redundant board files

Andreas Färber afaerber at suse.de
Sun Apr 3 17:41:39 CEST 2016


Am 03.04.2016 um 05:56 schrieb Stephen Warren:
> Now that rpi_*defconfig and Kconfig rather than the config header file,

"rpi*_defconfig"?

Also the sentence seems to be missing a verb - "Now that we use ..."?

> provide the identify of the build, we don't need to separate config

"identity"?

> headers and board directories for each RPi variant. Set CONFIG_SYS_BOARD
> and CONFIG_SYS_CONFIG_NAME so that we can get rid of the duplication. This
> requires a tiny number of extra ifdefs in the config header.
> 
> The only disadvantage of this approach is that the $board/$board_name
> environment variables aren't as descriptive as they used to be. This isn't
> really an issue because those only exist to allow scripts to create DTB
> filenames at runtime. However, the RPi board code already sets $fdtfile to
> something more accurate based on FW-reported board ID anyway.
> 
> While at it, unify some Kconfig select options, and add a MAINTAINERS
> entry for bcm283x too.
> 
> Partially-suggested-by: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org>

Regards,
Andreas

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