[U-Boot] Compiling u-boot (sunxi/next)

[Olliver Schinagl <oliver+list@schinagl.nl>]

Hey Ian,

On 18-09-15 10:32, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-09-18 at 10:22 +0200, Olliver Schinagl wrote:
>> Hey all,
> Did you CC the wrong Hans by mistake?
Yeah, curse you auto-complete :S
>> just working on a _defconfig for our board and noticed that u-boot fails
>> to compile if my defconfig doesn't have:
>> # CONFIG_CMD_IMLS is not set
>>
>> What supprised me is that it has to be in there as a comment to unset
>> it. I would have imaged that it would be unset by default and only be
>> available if set in the defconfig, or rather, how can commenting it in
>> the defconfig unset it?
> That's how Kconfig works, an option is either set =m or =y or is a comment
> saying "# FOO is not set", which is equivalent to the (nonexistent) =n
> state.
ah, well I knew that the 'non-existant' variable would take the default 
value, maybe I just assumed the default value should be unset :)
>
> If a value isn't present at all then it takes on its default value, as
> specified in the Kconfig file (default default is off, "default y" makes it
> y etc), as modified by select from or depends on other options.
>
> I'm not sure about the actual build failure. It's probably just a bug in
> either the code or the Kconfig, but I don't know what IMLS even is.
IMLS, IMage LiSt, but only for NOR, the NAND variant has some more 
letters appended :)
>
> Ian.
>
>> I've added the u-boot list to the CC, but afaik it's not an open list
>> and my registrations have failed on a number of occasions ...
>>
>> Not that it should fail to compile either way, here's the output:
>>
>> In file included from
>> /home/oliver/Ultimaker/dev/sunxi-bsp/u-boot
>> -sunxi/common/cmd_bootm.c:35:0:
>> /home/oliver/Ultimaker/dev/sunxi-bsp/u-boot
>> -sunxi/include/mtd/cfi_flash.h:168:22:
>> error: unknown type name ?flash_info_t?
>>    void flash_write_cmd(flash_info_t * info, flash_sect_t sect,
>>                         ^
>> /home/oliver/Ultimaker/dev/sunxi-bsp/u-boot
>> -sunxi/include/mtd/cfi_flash.h:168:43:
>> error: unknown type name ?flash_sect_t?
>>    void flash_write_cmd(flash_info_t * info, flash_sect_t sect,
>>                                              ^
>> /home/oliver/Ultimaker/dev/sunxi-bsp/u-boot
>> -sunxi/include/mtd/cfi_flash.h:172:22:
>> error: unknown type name ?flash_info_t?
>>    void flash_cmd_reset(flash_info_t *info);
>>                         ^
>> /home/oliver/Ultimaker/dev/sunxi-bsp/u-boot
>> -sunxi/common/cmd_bootm.c:36:8:
>> error: unknown type name ?flash_info_t?
>>    extern flash_info_t flash_info[]; /* info for FLASH chips */
>>           ^
>> /home/oliver/Ultimaker/dev/sunxi-bsp/u-boot-sunxi/common/cmd_bootm.c: In
>> function ?do_imls_nor?:
>> /home/oliver/Ultimaker/dev/sunxi-bsp/u-boot
>> -sunxi/common/cmd_bootm.c:321:2:
>> error: unknown type name ?flash_info_t?
>>     flash_info_t *info;
>>     ^
>> /home/oliver/Ultimaker/dev/sunxi-bsp/u-boot
>> -sunxi/common/cmd_bootm.c:326:7:
>> error: ?CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_BANKS? undeclared (first use in this
>> function)
>>      i < CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_BANKS; ++i, ++info) {
>>          ^
>> /home/oliver/Ultimaker/dev/sunxi-bsp/u-boot
>> -sunxi/common/cmd_bootm.c:326:7:
>> note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function
>> it appears in
>> /home/oliver/Ultimaker/dev/sunxi-bsp/u-boot
>> -sunxi/common/cmd_bootm.c:328:11:
>> error: request for member ?flash_id? in something not a structure or
>> union
>>      if (info->flash_id == FLASH_UNKNOWN)
>>              ^
>> /home/oliver/Ultimaker/dev/sunxi-bsp/u-boot
>> -sunxi/common/cmd_bootm.c:328:25:
>> error: ?FLASH_UNKNOWN? undeclared (first use in this function)
>>      if (info->flash_id == FLASH_UNKNOWN)
>>                            ^
>> /home/oliver/Ultimaker/dev/sunxi-bsp/u-boot
>> -sunxi/common/cmd_bootm.c:330:23:
>> error: request for member ?sector_count? in something not a structure or
>> union
>>      for (j = 0; j < info->sector_count; ++j) {
>>                          ^
>> /home/oliver/Ultimaker/dev/sunxi-bsp/u-boot
>> -sunxi/common/cmd_bootm.c:332:22:
>> error: request for member ?start? in something not a structure or union
>>       hdr = (void *)info->start[j];
>>
>>
>> Olliver
>>