[coreboot] some thoughts on dts vs. Kconfig vs. makefiles vs. C code
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Wed Mar 5 14:52:47 CET 2008
On 05.03.2008 06:08, ron minnich wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 7:35 AM, Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse at amd.com> wrote:
>
>
>> Excellent. I feel compelled to chime in on behalf of buildrom. The
>> fewer files that we need to copy and/or modify from buildrom to
>> coreboot-v3 to get what we need, the happier we will be. If we find
>> ourselves constantly changing values in the dts or in Makefiles, then
>> that should be a really good clue that perhaps the value belongs in
>> Kconfig instead. I don't think anybody likes how we're doing configuration
>> now - I look forward to being able to copy a single .config file in
>> place, or, at the worst, being able to construct a single .config file
>> with the changes we need.
>>
>
> What would you change? Do you mean that the settings in the mainboard
> dts should be in a .config file?
>
> If we do that, we're going to need to make parsing the dts part of the
> make menuconfig process. Or did I miss the point?
>
I think the dts already has override capabilities, so buildrom should be
able to just supply another mainboard-level dts which only contains the
settings you want to override in the mainboard dts.
Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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