any value in allowing user selection of barebox prompt?

Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD plagnioj at jcrosoft.com
Tue Feb 7 06:56:18 EST 2012


On 06:13 Tue 07 Feb     , Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 10:57:22AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
> ... snip ...
> 
> > >   i tried it and it seems to work fine although the aesthetics in
> > > "make menuconfig" is a bit strange WRT order:
> > >
> > >     (Texas Instrument's Beagle) Board info
> > >         Select OMAP board (Texas Instrument's Beagle Board)  --->
> > >
> > > but that could be fixed just by moving the BOARDINFO entry below the
> > > board choice in that file.
> > >
> > >   was this already discussed and rejected once upon a time?  it's not
> > > a big deal but it has the value of being moderately informative.
> >
> > It hasn't been discussed before. It's mostly the way it is because I
> > did it that way without much thinking. The change you suggest has
> > one drawback. Consider you do a make menuconfig and change the
> > board. Currently BOARDINFO correctly changes to the new board, but
> > if we prompt the user for BOARDINFO the board string will still have
> > the name of the old board.
> 
>   i'd noticed that but didn't know if there was any way to resolve
> it easily.
add set support to Kconfig

Best Regards,
J.



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