[Buildroot] [PATCH v3 1/2] boot/uboot: add support for the kconfig infrastructure

Jörg Krause joerg.krause at embedded.rocks
Sun Jun 14 13:18:05 UTC 2015


Dear Thomas Petazzoni,

On So, 2015-06-14 at 14:46 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Jörg Krause,
> 
> On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 14:05:57 +0200, Jörg Krause wrote:
> > With the patchset "kconfig: turnaround into single .config"
> > [http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2015-February/205490.html]
> > U-Boot switched to a single .config file for board configuration. 
> > This allows
> > us to use the kconfig-package infrastructure.
> > 
> > For providing backward compatibility with older U-Boot version a 
> > user choice
> > between the new Kconfig and the legacy build system is introduced. 
> > Kconfig
> > is chosen as default build system.
> 
> This will break plenty of existing configuration that use older
> Buildroot versions. Since the legacy configure/build commands also 
> work
> with newer U-Boot, I think we should rather have the legacy build 
> logic
> used by default.

Sorry, I forgot to discard this sentence from the commit log. Indeed,
Kconfig is _not_ chosen as default.

> > This patch supersedes "boot/uboot: Add support for Kbuild & Kconfig 
> > build
> > system" [http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/436498/]
> 
> Please mark your patches as Superseded yourself in patchwork :-)

Done :-)

> No need to indicate that in the commit log.

Okay.

Best regards
Jörg Krause



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