[U-Boot] [ANNOUNCE] Kconfig support

[Sascha Hauer <sha@pengutronix.de>]

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.

Sascha


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