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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 07:53:34 +0100
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/1] MX5:MX53: support for freescale MX53LOCO
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Dear Liu Hui-R64343,

In message <2CF7613B9822A943BEF13EF7ACEC5BD114A316@039-SN1MPN1-003.039d.mgd.msft.net> you wrote:
> 
> >As I discovered myself, usage of config.mk is discouraged and it should be
> >removed and it is not accepted anymore for new boards. Instead of that, it is
> >possible to add CONFIG_ options in boards.cfg.
> 
> OK, do you know why config.mk is discouraged?

There are seeral reasons, the most prominent being

1) because it's simply not needed in 95% of all cases

2) because it's bad to distribute vital configuration information into
   several independent files

and

3) because we're preparing the grounds for a Kconfig based setup so we
   want to have all config options controlled by a single mechanism
   (board config file).

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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