Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout (multiple ways to show the same Kconfig configs?)

2009-05-01 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 07:44:48AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: On Apr 21, 2009, at 3:52 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: Dear Kumar Gala, In message 93A8F58D-8C13-4F72-AFF3- cf4fdf9a3...@kernel.crashing.org you wrote: In my experience, I tend to search for board names first. So back to the

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

2009-04-22 Thread Robert Schwebel
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 07:22:31PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Wolfgang Denk w...@denx.de wrote: Dear Jon Smirl, In message 9e4733910904211533s58df5764na715986b36824...@mail.gmail.com you wrote: - for those who look for a board name, we should support

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout (multiple ways to show the same Kconfig configs?)

2009-04-22 Thread Kumar Gala
On Apr 21, 2009, at 3:52 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: Dear Kumar Gala, In message 93A8F58D-8C13-4F72-AFF3- cf4fdf9a3...@kernel.crashing.org you wrote: In my experience, I tend to search for board names first. So back to the root of my question, do we just have one really long list of board

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout (multiple ways to show the same Kconfig configs?)

2009-04-22 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 07:44:48AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: On Apr 21, 2009, at 3:52 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: Dear Kumar Gala, In message 93A8F58D-8C13-4F72-AFF3- cf4fdf9a3...@kernel.crashing.org you wrote: In my experience, I tend to search for board names first. So back to the

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

2009-04-21 Thread Jerry Van Baren
Jon Smirl wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Jon Smirl jonsm...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Kumar Gala ga...@kernel.crashing.org wrote: On Apr 20, 2009, at 5:01 PM, Jon Smirl wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Kumar Gala ga...@kernel.crashing.org wrote: In

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

2009-04-21 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Jon Smirl, In message 9e4733910904201706u58387d5fod231dd4b8ac88...@mail.gmail.com you wrote: Everyone will know the vendor of their board. You could alphabetize Really? So who is the board vendor for the MPC8360 board? Freescale or Logic PD? And who is the vendor for the ADS5121?

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

2009-04-21 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Jon Smirl, In message 9e4733910904201712x68658ddfk3c18298deb82b...@mail.gmail.com you wrote: There are a lot of boards that could be moved into a vendor subdirs. I suspect we have less than 100 vendors. Maybe as few as 60. There is many vendors which have just a single board; also,

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

2009-04-21 Thread Alessandro Rubini
There is many vendors which have just a single board; Like the ST nomadik8815 I maintain. Just adding an additional directory level for a single entry does not make much sense to me. So should we leave the nomadik as a single-entry vendor board or leave it as is? (more nomadik boards will be

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

2009-04-21 Thread Alessandro Rubini
So should we leave the nomadik as a single-entry vendor board or leave it as is? Argh! I mean: leave it alone in its own vendor-dir or move it up one level? I got the idea vendor dirs were preferred anyway (as suggested by JC), but Wolfgang's last message suggests the opposite. Sorry for

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

2009-04-21 Thread Jon Smirl
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Wolfgang Denk w...@denx.de wrote: Dear Jon Smirl, In message 9e4733910904201706u58387d5fod231dd4b8ac88...@mail.gmail.com you wrote: Everyone will know the vendor of their board. You could alphabetize Really? So who is the board vendor for the MPC8360

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

2009-04-21 Thread Scott Wood
Jon Smirl wrote: My vote would be to require all boards in the board/ directory to be in a vendor directory. When you buy the board it is pretty obvious from the accompanying packaging/manuals who the vendor is. Companies and product lines get bought, names change... IMHO, architecture

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

2009-04-21 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Jon Smirl, In message 9e4733910904210833u79f3d4dfv2db7449162462...@mail.gmail.com you wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Wolfgang Denk w...@denx.de wrote: Dear Jon Smirl, In message 9e4733910904201706u58387d5fod231dd4b8ac88...@mail.gmail.com you wrote: Everyone will know

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

2009-04-21 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Jon Smirl, In message 9e4733910904210841n6c7f0db5s57eee23520dc...@mail.gmail.com you wrote: My vote would be to require all boards in the board/ directory to be in a vendor directory. When you buy the board it is pretty obvious from the accompanying packaging/manuals who the vendor is.

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

2009-04-21 Thread Kumar Gala
On Apr 21, 2009, at 3:02 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: Dear Jon Smirl, In message 9e4733910904210841n6c7f0db5s57eee23520dc...@mail.gmail.com you wrote: My vote would be to require all boards in the board/ directory to be in a vendor directory. When you buy the board it is pretty obvious

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

2009-04-21 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Kumar Gala, In message 93a8f58d-8c13-4f72-aff3-cf4fdf9a3...@kernel.crashing.org you wrote: In my experience, I tend to search for board names first. So back to the root of my question, do we just have one really long list of board names? I'm not an expert for the capabilities of

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

2009-04-21 Thread Jon Smirl
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Kumar Gala ga...@kernel.crashing.org wrote: On Apr 21, 2009, at 3:52 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: Dear Kumar Gala, In message 93a8f58d-8c13-4f72-aff3-cf4fdf9a3...@kernel.crashing.org you wrote: In my experience, I tend to search for board names first. So

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

2009-04-21 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Kumar, In message aea791b2-2bc0-49f7-9152-acf6ca567...@kernel.crashing.org you wrote: I'm not an expert for the capabilities of Kconfig, but one looong list with hundrets of entries clearly makes no sense. We obviously need sum grouping / structuring. IMHO there should be several

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

2009-04-21 Thread Kumar Gala
On Apr 21, 2009, at 5:59 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: Dear Kumar, In message AEA791B2-2BC0-49F7-9152- acf6ca567...@kernel.crashing.org you wrote: I'm not an expert for the capabilities of Kconfig, but one looong list with hundrets of entries clearly makes no sense. We obviously need

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

2009-04-21 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Jon Smirl, In message 9e4733910904211533s58df5764na715986b36824...@mail.gmail.com you wrote: - for those who look for a board name, we should support this,  probably wih an initial selection by the first letter (case  insensitive) of the board name.  like this:     = board name =

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

2009-04-21 Thread Jon Smirl
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Wolfgang Denk w...@denx.de wrote: Dear Jon Smirl, In message 9e4733910904211533s58df5764na715986b36824...@mail.gmail.com you wrote: - for those who look for a board name, we should support this,  probably wih an initial selection by the first letter (case

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

2009-04-21 Thread Ben Warren
Jon Smirl wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Wolfgang Denk w...@denx.de wrote: Dear Jon Smirl, In message 9e4733910904211533s58df5764na715986b36824...@mail.gmail.com you wrote: - for those who look for a board name, we should support this, probably wih an initial selection

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

2009-04-20 Thread Jon Smirl
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Kumar Gala ga...@kernel.crashing.org wrote: In chatting w/Wolfgang on IRC he felt that we should maintain the highlevel picking a board implies ARCH and other settings. However this seems like a lot of boards in one list.. To get a rough order of magnitude

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

2009-04-20 Thread Kumar Gala
On Apr 20, 2009, at 5:01 PM, Jon Smirl wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Kumar Gala ga...@kernel.crashing.org wrote: In chatting w/Wolfgang on IRC he felt that we should maintain the highlevel picking a board implies ARCH and other settings. However this seems like a lot of boards

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

2009-04-20 Thread Jon Smirl
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Kumar Gala ga...@kernel.crashing.org wrote: On Apr 20, 2009, at 5:01 PM, Jon Smirl wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Kumar Gala ga...@kernel.crashing.org wrote: In chatting w/Wolfgang on IRC he felt that we should maintain the highlevel picking a

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

2009-04-20 Thread Jon Smirl
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Jon Smirl jonsm...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Kumar Gala ga...@kernel.crashing.org wrote: On Apr 20, 2009, at 5:01 PM, Jon Smirl wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Kumar Gala ga...@kernel.crashing.org wrote: In chatting