[U-Boot] RFQ: Makefile cleanup

[Rogan Dawes <rogan@dawes.za.net>]

On 2010/10/07 7:22 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Rogan Dawes,
> 
> In message <4CAD569E.3020706@dawes.za.net> you wrote:
>>
>> Keep in mind that the Linux folk are looking for an alternative to the
>> defconfig mess that they have currently.
>>
>> Linus has stated that he will delete all the ARM defconfigs soon.
> 
> I think the current Linux approach is focussed on generating single
> kernel images that can be used on as many as possible platforms. This
> is needed for things like building Linux distributions and such.
> 
> U-Boot, on the other hand, is very much bound to specific hardware
> configurations, and at least so far (*) we will always need secial
> configurations for each board.  This makes a pretty much fundamental
> difference.
> 
> (*) We discussed before to auto-configure U-Boot for example based on
> a device tee description of the hardware. But it is still a long way
> to go.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Wolfgang Denk

My understanding of it (although I have not followed it closely) was
that they were looking for a mechanism to specify those things that
should be in the configuration at a high level, that would then lead to
the rest of the dependent items being selected automatically.

So, rather than having a *full* config file (and all the associated
churn as individual settings are changed within the kernel), they would
only have a snippet that selects the specific features for the board,
that would then cascade-select the rest of the settings for a full
kernel config.

That was considered acceptable, afaik.

Rogan