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From: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] config: enable CONFIG_API in distro config
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 09:58:33 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53514BA9.9020301@wwwdotorg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140418155536.GF5698@bill-the-cat>

On 04/18/2014 09:55 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 09:44:44AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
>> On 04/18/2014 09:35 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
>>> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 03:55:48PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
>>>
>>>> From: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
>>>>
>>>> CONFIG_API is needed for u-boot apps such as grub2, so enable it for
>>>> distro config.
>>>>
>>>> Cc: Dennis Gilmore <dennis@ausil.us>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
>>>
>>> This breaks a number of boards that have opted in to the distro config.
>>> The full list is:
>>> whistler trimslice beaver tec paz00 ventana cardhu harmony dalmore
>>> plutux medcom-wide rpi_b venice2 colibri_t20_iris tec-ng seaboard
>>
>> Hmm. That's all or most Tegra boards. What's the break?
>>
>> That said, I wonder why we need CONFIG_API in the distro config; the
>> purpose of that config is to allow the "pxe" and "sysboot" commands not
>> to work. If we start supporting all kinds of other random boot
>> mechanisms, we'll just end up with a fragmented mess, rather than a
>> unified boot mechanism.
> 
> It's to add grub2, as Rob says :)

Right, but why should that be part of the standard distro config, which
isn't Grub2, but rather pxe/sysboot?

  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-18 15:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-10 20:55 [U-Boot] [PATCH] config: enable CONFIG_API in distro config Rob Herring
2014-04-18 15:35 ` [U-Boot] " Tom Rini
2014-04-18 15:44   ` Stephen Warren
2014-04-18 15:55     ` Tom Rini
2014-04-18 15:58       ` Stephen Warren [this message]
2014-04-18 15:58     ` Rob Herring
2014-04-18 15:44   ` Tom Warren
2014-04-18 15:56     ` Tom Rini
2014-04-18 16:42       ` Rob Herring
2014-04-18 17:23   ` Stephen Warren
2014-04-18 17:43     ` Simon Glass
2014-04-19 14:01       ` Ian Campbell
     [not found]         ` <20140419104218.702c3706@adria.ausil.us>
2014-04-20 16:55           ` Simon Glass
2014-04-21 14:49             ` Dennis Gilmore
2014-04-21 17:57               ` Simon Glass
2014-04-21 18:05                 ` Stephen Warren
2014-04-18 22:54     ` Rob Herring
2014-04-19  1:05       ` Leif Lindholm
2014-04-19 14:04         ` Ian Campbell
2014-04-19 14:34     ` Ian Campbell

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