[PATCH 0/7] Basic support for Marvell Armada 370/XP SoC

[Sascha Hauer]

Hi Thomas,

On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 07:52:28PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Jason Cooper,
> 
> On Sat, 4 May 2013 13:15:30 -0400, Jason Cooper wrote:
> 
> > Great work!  Very clean series.  I only have one thought.  Prafulla
> > (u-boot kirkwood maintainer) is always asking about consolidating the
> > kwbimage.cfg files.  The three you've submitted for the first three
> > boards are almost (if not entirely) identical.  Before a whole bunch of
> > boards get added, should we make a kwbimage-common.cfg or similar?
> 
> I'm not sure I want to make the configuration language more complicated
> than it is already. It's already a pain to parse such a configuration
> file in C (I would have preferred to write the kwbimage tool in Python,
> but since all existing Barebox tools are in C, I wasn't sure a Python
> tool would have been accepted). Adding the support for includes means
> that you have to recursively handle includes, etc. I'm not sure I want
> to go down this road for files that typically have between 10 to 30
> lines.

How about using the C preprocessor for includes if they become
necessary?

Sascha

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