From: York Sun <yorksun@freescale.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v8 02/13] kconfig: add board Kconfig and defconfig files
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 09:49:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53E3AE24.5080703@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140807155913.96DE.AA925319@jp.panasonic.com>
On 08/06/2014 11:59 PM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Hi York,
>
>
> On Wed, 6 Aug 2014 11:24:27 -0700
> York Sun <yorksun@freescale.com> wrote:
>
>> On 07/29/2014 10:08 PM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>>> This commit adds:
>>> - arch/${ARCH}/Kconfig
>>> provide a menu to select target boards
>>> - board/${VENDOR}/${BOARD}/Kconfig or board/${BOARD}/Kconfig
>>> set CONFIG macros to the appropriate values for each board
>>> - configs/${TARGET_BOARD}_defconfig
>>> default setting of each board
>>>
>>> (This commit was automatically generated by a conversion script
>>> based on boards.cfg)
>>
>> Dear Masahiro,
>>
>> Do you have any plan to sort the entries in each Kconfig, eg arch/arm/Kconfig?
>
>
> Do you mean, just sorting? (if so, in which order)
> or grouping boards with the same platform like this series?
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/376860/
>
> So, my answer is yes for ARM Kconfig.
> The first phase of refactoring is on Patchwork now
> (and I have a plan to do a little bit more).
> But I have no idea about the other architecutures.
> Honestly, I am expecting it to the custodian of each architecture.
>
> BTW the entries in Kconfig are already sorted.
> The order is the same as that in boards.cfg
> which originates in tools/reformat.py.
>
> We had sorted the entries with tools/reformat.py quite often, right?
> (I thought it was really painful to resolve merge conflicts in boards.cfg,
> but it looked like everybody had gotten along with it...)
>
> Anyway, please let me know your intention clearer.
> How do you want the entries in Kconfig look like?
>
Dear Masahiro,
When I was playing with the u-boot with Kconfig, I found it was not easy to
select the board I wanted to build if using menuconfig. The reason is the board
names are not sorted. Of course I can easily get around it by using _defconfig.
Regards,
York
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-07 16:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-30 5:08 [U-Boot] [PATCH v8 0/13] Kconfig for U-Boot Masahiro Yamada
2014-07-30 5:08 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v8 01/13] kconfig: import Kconfig files from Linux 3.16-rc7 Masahiro Yamada
2014-07-30 19:14 ` Tom Rini
2014-07-30 5:08 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v8 02/13] kconfig: add board Kconfig and defconfig files Masahiro Yamada
2014-07-30 19:14 ` Tom Rini
2014-08-06 18:24 ` York Sun
2014-08-07 6:59 ` Masahiro Yamada
2014-08-07 16:49 ` York Sun [this message]
2014-07-30 5:08 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v8 03/13] kconfig: add basic Kconfig files Masahiro Yamada
2014-07-30 19:14 ` Tom Rini
2014-07-30 5:08 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v8 04/13] include: define CONFIG_SPL and CONFIG_TPL as 1 Masahiro Yamada
2014-07-30 19:14 ` Tom Rini
2014-07-30 5:08 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v8 05/13] kconfig: switch to Kconfig Masahiro Yamada
2014-07-30 19:14 ` Tom Rini
2014-07-30 23:05 ` Stephen Warren
2014-07-31 1:56 ` Masahiro Yamada
2014-07-31 2:08 ` Stephen Warren
2014-07-31 20:34 ` Tom Rini
2014-07-31 20:55 ` Stephen Warren
2014-07-31 21:06 ` Jeroen Hofstee
2014-07-30 5:08 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v8 06/13] Add board MAINTAINERS files Masahiro Yamada
2014-07-30 19:15 ` Tom Rini
2014-07-30 5:08 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v8 07/13] tools: add genboardscfg.py Masahiro Yamada
2014-07-30 14:07 ` Tom Rini
2014-07-30 15:12 ` Simon Glass
2014-07-30 15:22 ` Tom Rini
2014-07-30 15:38 ` Simon Glass
2014-07-31 2:22 ` Masahiro Yamada
2014-07-31 12:17 ` Tom Rini
2014-07-30 19:15 ` Tom Rini
2014-07-30 5:08 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v8 08/13] kconfig: remove mkconfig and boards.cfg Masahiro Yamada
2014-07-30 19:15 ` Tom Rini
2014-07-30 5:08 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v8 09/13] MAKEALL: adjust for Kconfig Masahiro Yamada
2014-07-30 19:15 ` Tom Rini
2014-07-30 5:08 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v8 10/13] buildman: " Masahiro Yamada
2014-07-30 19:15 ` Tom Rini
2014-07-30 5:08 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v8 11/13] kconfig: delete redundant CONFIG_${ARCH} definition Masahiro Yamada
2014-07-30 19:15 ` Tom Rini
2014-07-30 5:08 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v8 12/13] powerpc: remove redundant CPU definition Masahiro Yamada
2014-07-30 5:34 ` Stefan Roese
2014-07-30 19:15 ` Tom Rini
2014-07-30 5:08 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v8 13/13] include: remove CONFIG_SPL/CONFIG_TPL definition in config headers Masahiro Yamada
2014-07-30 19:15 ` Tom Rini
2014-07-30 19:16 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v8 0/13] Kconfig for U-Boot Tom Rini
2014-07-31 22:19 ` Simon Glass
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