[U-Boot] [PATCH 8/8] Migrate generic bootcount to Kconfig

[Lukasz Majewski]

On Mon, 12 Feb 2018 09:48:13 +0100
Lukasz Majewski <lukma at denx.de> wrote:

> Hi Alex,
> 
> > On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 9:44 PM, Lukasz Majewski <lukma at denx.de>
> > wrote:  
> > > On Sun, 11 Feb 2018 21:04:46 +0000
> > > Alex Kiernan <alex.kiernan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >    
> > >>
> > >> That said, squashing in that change doesn't obviously break
> > >> anything for me, and is probably a step in the right direction.
> > >>
> > >> I'll see what Travis thinks.
> > >>    
> > >
> > > We will probably receive build breaks...    
> > 
> > Yup... https://travis-ci.org/akiernan/u-boot/jobs/340344489
> > 
> > Just tried again on one of those failures (x600) with the the
> > default removed and just set the on board that uses CONFIG_EXT, but
> > that then fails at config time.  
> 
> Ok. I see
> 
> > 
> > TBH I'd actually like to take it out of Kconfig (which I realise is
> > the wrong direction) as it just feels fundamentally wrong the way it
> > is.   
> 
> To finish moving SYS_BOOTCOUNT_ADDR to Kconfig we would need to add
> its definition to each eligible ./configs/<board>_defconfig file.
> 
> Then we would have the previous behaviour preserved. 
> 
> > I don't know what the U-Boot approach configuration like this
> > is... struggling to find prior art.  

I had similar issue with HW_WATCHDOG conversion:

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/cover/871576/
especially:

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/871579/

> 
> Let's ask Tom for his opinion as he did much such work before.
> 
> >   
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Lukasz Majewski
> 
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Best regards,

Lukasz Majewski

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