[PATCH] Add an option to set a board specific banner

[Sascha Hauer]

On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 01:45:18PM +0100, Franck JULLIEN wrote:
> 2011/1/3 Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>
> 
> 
> I know CONFIG_BOARDINFO is board specific. However, I think it is more
> conveniant
> to have the possibility to define a banner text outside the Kconfig. For
> example, I use
> this in my config.h:
> 
> #define CONFIG_BOARD_BANNER_TEXT "\e[1;32m\
> ***********************************************************************\n\
> *           Communication board bootloader (ODSFT0152)        *\n\
> ************************************************************************\
> \e[0m\n\n"
> 
> So may be we could define this kind of banner in the Kconfig.....

Ok, I can see your problem. I think we should rather define a board
specific function to display a banner than a string, so something like:

config BOARD_BANNER
	bool

#ifdef CONFIG_BOARD_BANNER
	display_board_banner();
#else
	printf(RELOC("Board: " CONFIG_BOARDINFO "\n"));
#endif

This way we can also show runtime dependent information in the banner
(like baseboard or whatever).

> 
> Let me know if you don't like this. This patch was kind of a test for me and
> we could
> forget about it.
> 
> Although this patch was very small, we had a lot of discussion around it and
> I don't want to imagine what it is going to be when I submit the nios2 port :)

Don't worry, the amount of comments you receive usually is not
proportional to the patch size you send ;)

Sascha

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