any value in allowing user selection of barebox prompt?

[Robert P. J. Day]

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.

> I think the board name does not have to come from Kconfig anyway.
> How about keeping things in Kconfig how they are but instead of
> using CONFIG_BOARDINFO directly we could use a string. This string
> defaults to CONFIG_BOARDINFO but can be overwritten by board code by
> calling a set_boardinfo(const char *) function. For new boards we
> could use this exclusively and maybe convert the existing boards
> over to it.

  i didn't want to make a big deal of this, i figured if it was
something sufficiently simple, it would be useful.

rday

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