From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] doc: add README for CONFIG_HWCONFIG option
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 12:44:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201002091244.09504.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B717636.8060203@denx.de>
On Tuesday 09 February 2010 09:50:30 Heiko Schocher wrote:
> +Enable this feature just define CONFIG_HWCONFIG in your board
> +config file.
To enable ...
> +This implements simple hwconfig infrastructure: an
> +interface for software knobs to control a hardware.
... a simple ...
... control hardware.
> +This is very simple implementation, i.e. it is implemented
... is a very ...
> +via `hwconfig' environment variable. Later we could write
... via the ...
> +1. Doesn't support options dependencies and mutual exclusion.
> + We can implement this by integrating apt-get[3] into the
> + u-boot. But I didn't bother yet.
... into Das U-Boot.
didn't -> haven't
> +2. Since we don't implement hwconfig command, i.e. we're working
... implement a hwconfig ...
> + toggling a particular option will need a reboot to take
> + an effect. So, for now it's advised to always reboot the
... take effect.
> + target after modifying hwconfig variable.
... modifying the hwconfig ...
> +3. We support hwconfig options with arguments. For example,
> +
> + set hwconfig "dr_usb:mode=peripheral,phy_type=ulpi"
> +
> + There are three hwconfig options selected:
This selects three hwconfig options:
> +The purpose of this simple implementation is to define some
> +internal API and
... to refine the internal ...
> +and then we can continue improving user experience
... improving the user ...
> +by adding more mature interface, like hwconfig command with
interfaces
... like a hwconfig ...
> +bells and whistles. Or not adding, if we feel that current
... that the current ...
> +interface fits its needs.
... fits people's needs.
-mike
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-09 14:50 [U-Boot] doc: add README for CONFIG_HWCONFIG option Heiko Schocher
2010-02-09 17:44 ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2010-02-10 7:03 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2] [PATCH] " Heiko Schocher
2010-03-11 23:09 ` Wolfgang Denk
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