[PATCH 08/19] commands: move CMD_MIPS_CPUINFO to commands/Kconfig

Antony Pavlov antonynpavlov at gmail.com
Tue May 13 05:23:40 PDT 2014


On Tue, 13 May 2014 13:28:17 +0200
Holger Schurig <holgerschurig at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> i thought about having exactly one CONFIG_CMD_CPUINFO. No need for
> your steps 2. and 3., because both arch/arm/Makefile and
> arch/arm/Makefile could do "obj-$(CONFIG_CMD_CPUINFO) += cpuinfo.o",
> you cannot compile for ARM and MIPS at the same time anyway.
> 

You right, steps 2 and 3 are redundunt. I have forgotten that you move Kconfig, but you don't touch cpuinfo.c.

> However, I decided against it. Because then I'd have to remove the
> example "cpuinfo" output from them the Kconfig help.

Can we move example 'cpuinfo' output to *.dox?
 
> Just that generally I'd like to have output example in the Kconfig, so
> that people see at "make xconfig" time if they want this command or
> not. I, for example, don't want "cpuinfo", I know which CPU is
> soldered into the board :-)

There are pin-to-pin compatible SoC revisions that use just the same package.
cpuinfo can help you to determinate the exact SoC version :)

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Best regards,
  Antony Pavlov



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