[U-Boot] [ANNOUNCE] Kconfig support

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

On Monday 20 April 2009 11:39:52 Grant Likely wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:20:50AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >> On Monday 20 April 2009 10:53:39 Robert Schwebel wrote:
> >> > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:42:08AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >> > > > U-Boot-v2 is used here to do real work in our projects. If it
> >> > > > isn't what you need, it is perfectly fine if you ignore it.
> >> > >
> >> > > my concern isnt really narrow to the Blackfin port. i was using it
> >> > > as a practical example. we've talked about v2 in the past as the
> >> > > answer to many of our problems and so we dont bother doing it in v1.
> >> > > but that approach looks to be wrong as v2 is of little practical
> >> > > importance. instead we should be doing what Jean-Christophe is
> >> > > doing: poaching good ideas until we get to the point where v2 can
> >> > > simply die.
> >> >
> >> > If you mean "you" while saying "we", then yes, it may be correct that
> >> > this is your plan. "We" don't have any plans to let v2 die.
> >> >
> >> > Should we be mindful of the future? But not at the expense of the
> >> > moment. Be mindful of the living Force, my young Padawan.
> >>
> >> i never said "kill it now"; quite the opposite really.  in fact, it
> >> looks like you really arent taking your own saying to heart.  my point
> >> is to look to the future and stop wasting resources.  if v1 incorporates
> >> all the features of v2, then v2 has no purpose at all except to split
> >> development and waste peoples time.
> >
> > Well as you said at the moment there is not much community around
> > u-boot-v2, so it's basically *our* time which we waste, and we are free
> > to do so. At the moment it seems you're wasting *your* time by warming
> > up this stupid discussion which Jerry already led to a nice ending.
>
> Indeed.  Let this thread die.  There is nothing wrong with v2 going
> off and trying something new.

no one said otherwise.  please read the thread context before chiming in.  if 
you had, you'd know that i was taking issue with the position of "let's not do 
XXX in v1 because it exists in v2", not "wtf does v2 exist".
-mike
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