[U-Boot] [PATCH 4/4 v2] Makefile/mkconfig: read simple board configurations from boards.cfg

[Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>]

In message <1274995116-8708-5-git-send-email-wd@denx.de> you wrote:
> Instead of adding explicit build rules for each and every board to the
> top level Makefile (which makes it grow and grow), we now provide a
> simple default rule and extend the "mkconfig" script to read board
> configurations from a plain text file (table), "boards.cfg".
> 
> For simple boards it is now sufficient to add a single line of text to
> the "boards.cfg" file, no changes to the top level Makefile are needed
> any more.
> 
> To make the table better readable, change the notation for unused
> fields from "NULL" into "-".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
> Cc: Peter Tyser <ptyser@xes-inc.com>
> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
> ---
> Note:
> 	I had to disable the simple and very convenient rule
> 		%: %_config
> 			$(MAKE)
> 	in the top level Makefile, because it caused each invocation
> 	of "make" to fail with an error message:
> 
> 		make: *** No rule to make target `Makefile_config'.  Stop.
> 	
> 	Fixes welcome!

We're still looking for a clean solution for this problem...

> 
>  Makefile   |  823 ++----------------------------------------------------------
>  boards.cfg |  356 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  mkconfig   |   72 ++++--
>  3 files changed, 431 insertions(+), 820 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 boards.cfg


Applied to "next" branch.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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