Hi,

On 28-09-15 23:12, Tom Rini wrote:
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 09:22:35PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
Hi,

On 28-09-15 17:10, Tom Rini wrote:
On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 10:25:35AM -0700, Ryan Harkin wrote:

As config migrates from board config files to Kconfig, when adding
CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN to a platform, I decided to add
Kconfig support for CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN.

Signed-off-by: Ryan Harkin <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <[email protected]>
CC: Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]>
CC: Simon Glass <[email protected]>
CC: Linus Walleij <[email protected]>

Thanks for trying to do this.  The problem however is that you need to
use tools/moveconfig.py so that all of the other boards (which is a lot)
get updated too, otherwise they fail to build.

No, just no, not more polluting of defconfig files with things which really
belong in a per SoC file not a per board file.

Well, we should be putting SoC/arch-specific stuff into the defaults

Agreed, but where, do we add a long list of:

        default FOO if ARCH_BAR

To the Kconfig file where the actual CONFIG_SOMETHING gets defined, or
do we add it to board/bar/Kconfig ? Currently we've a bit of a mix,
I personally prefer the board/bar/Kconfig version as that puts everything for
one SoC(-family) in one place and it helps avoiding merge conflicts.

and
also using this as a chance to look at places where defaults differ
pointlessly.

But, I also hear your concern.  I see Masahiro has been working with
merge_config.sh from the kernel in the kernel.   How crazy would it be
to re-work things (in some cases..) to have a merge in the config
process so that there could be a sunxi-common config fragment.

Either we then ask the user to take an extra step during building
(not a good idea IMHO), or we somehow need to automate this, which is
hard because figuring out which foo_common_config fragment belongs
to which board_defconfig file is going to be hard and / or will
involve a long list of hardcoded values in a Makefile or some such.

Or
can/should we really just use default foo if Y in more places.

I believe that this is the better option, currently board/sunxi/Kconfig
already has:

config SYS_CLK_FREQ
        default 912000000 if MACH_SUN7I
        default 1008000000 if MACH_SUN4I || MACH_SUN5I || MACH_SUN6I || 
MACH_SUN8I

config SYS_CONFIG_NAME
        default "sun4i" if MACH_SUN4I
        default "sun5i" if MACH_SUN5I
        default "sun6i" if MACH_SUN6I
        default "sun7i" if MACH_SUN7I
        default "sun8i" if MACH_SUN8I
        default "sun9i" if MACH_SUN9I

Apparently these are not a problem for the script which is used to rewrite all
the defconfig-s, where as in the past having:

config CMD_FOO
        default y

in board/sunxi/Kconfig was a problem (it caused the script to emit
a ton of warnings IIRC) so I guess that doing something like:

config FOO
        default bar if ARCH_SUNXI

Will workaround the script issuing all kind of warnings, and then we
can keep per SoC(-family) defaults in board/foo/Kconfig.

Regards,

Hans
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