[U-Boot] Notes from the U-Boot BOF Meeting in Geneva 2012/07/12

[Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>]

Dear Graeme Russ,

> Hi Scott,
> 
> On 07/21/2012 07:40 AM, Scott Wood wrote:
> > On 07/20/2012 04:34 PM, Graeme Russ wrote:
> >> Hi Kim & Marek,
> >> 
> >> On 07/21/2012 07:09 AM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> >>> Dear Kim Phillips,
> >>> 
> >>>> On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 23:30:49 +0200
> >>>> 
> >>>> Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de> wrote:
> >>>>> as promised, here are my expanded notes from the BoF meeting at
> >>>>> LSM2012 last week.  It was a pleasure to get some core developers
> >>>>> into one room
> >>>> 
> >>>> Any word on Kconfig support?
> >>>> 
> >>>> Kim
> >>> 
> >>> I was digging in it for a bit, but then Graeme took over.
> >> 
> >> I have started on it - I've ported over the Kbuild infrastructure into a
> >> dedicated 'kbuild' makefile which is called from the main makefile. This
> >> make modifications to the existing makefile very minimal
> >> 
> >> Now it's just a case of building all the Kconfig files which is, to say
> >> the least, a massive task. I have a lot of other things going on, so
> >> unfortunately progress is slow
> > 
> > How about a transitional phase, where a symbol can either be a kconfig
> > symbol or handled the old way via the board config file?  That way,
> > custodians/maintainers could handle the conversion of their own symbols
> > (with the expectation that this be done within a reasonable timeframe).
> 
> Well the plan in to have 'make xyz_config' produce the equivalent .config
> file (which it pretty much does anyway) - You can then use Kconfig to tweak
> the board config
> 
> Or use Kconfig to create a config from scratch

Maybe you can push your current patchset somewhere so others can hack on it too 
?

> Regards,
> 
> Graeme

Best regards,
Marek Vasut