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    kconfig: switch to Kconfig · 51148790
    Masahiro Yamada authored and Tom Rini's avatar Tom Rini committed
    
    
    This commit enables Kconfig.
    Going forward, we use Kconfig for the board configuration.
    mkconfig will never be used. Nor will include/config.mk be generated.
    
    Kconfig must be adjusted for U-Boot because our situation is
    a little more complicated than Linux Kernel.
    We have to generate multiple boot images (Normal, SPL, TPL)
    from one source tree.
    Each image needs its own configuration input.
    
    Usage:
    
    Run "make <board>_defconfig" to do the board configuration.
    
    It will create the .config file and additionally spl/.config, tpl/.config
    if SPL, TPL is enabled, respectively.
    
    You can use "make config", "make menuconfig" etc. to create
    a new .config or modify the existing one.
    
    Use "make spl/config", "make spl/menuconfig" etc. for spl/.config
    and do likewise for tpl/.config file.
    
    The generic syntax of configuration targets for SPL, TPL is:
    
      <target_image>/<config_command>
    
    Here, <target_image> is either 'spl' or 'tpl'
          <config_command> is 'config', 'menuconfig', 'xconfig', etc.
    
    When the configuration is done, run "make".
    (Or "make <board>_defconfig all" will do the configuration and build
    in one time.)
    
    For futher information of how Kconfig works in U-Boot,
    please read the comment block of scripts/multiconfig.py.
    
    By the way, there is another item worth remarking here:
    coexistence of Kconfig and board herder files.
    
    Prior to Kconfig, we used C headers to define a set of configs.
    
    We expect a very long term to migrate from C headers to Kconfig.
    Two different infractructure must coexist in the interim.
    
    In our former configuration scheme, include/autoconf.mk was generated
    for use in makefiles.
    It is still generated under include/, spl/include/, tpl/include/ directory
    for the Normal, SPL, TPL image, respectively.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
    Acked-by: Simon Glass's avatarSimon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
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