any value in allowing user selection of barebox prompt?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  making things a bit simpler than my last few posts, is it worth
making the BOARDINFO prompt string user selectable?  if i was going to
do some customization, it would be nice to have the prompt perhaps
abbreviate what i'd done.

  for instance, if i:

$ make omap3530_beagle_defconfig

i can see how my barebox prompt string is going to be set in
arch/arm/mach-omap/Kconfig:

config BOARDINFO
        default "Texas Instrument's SDP343x" if MACH_OMAP343xSDP
        default "Texas Instrument's Beagle" if MACH_BEAGLE
        default "Texas Instrument's OMAP3EVM" if MACH_OMAP3EVM
        default "Texas Instrument's Panda" if MACH_PANDA
        default "Phytec phyCORE pcm049" if MACH_PCM049
        default "Phytec phyCARD-A-L1" if MACH_PCAAL1

  but if i specifically configure and build for an xM, i'd like the
prompt to perhaps read:

  barebox at Texas Instrument's Beagle xM:/

it's easy enough to do (although it would need to be done on a
per-machine basis):

config BOARDINFO
        string "Board info"
        default "Texas Instrument's SDP343x" if MACH_OMAP343xSDP
        default "Texas Instrument's Beagle" if MACH_BEAGLE
        default "Texas Instrument's OMAP3EVM" if MACH_OMAP3EVM
        default "Texas Instrument's Panda" if MACH_PANDA
        default "Phytec phyCORE pcm049" if MACH_PCM049
        default "Phytec phyCARD-A-L1" if MACH_PCAAL1

  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.

rday

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