When Kconfig for U-boot was examined, one of the biggest issues was
how to support multiple images (Normal, SPL, TPL). There were
actually two options, "single .config" and "multiple .config".
After some discussions and thought experiments, I chose the latter,
i.e. to create ".config", "spl/.config", "tpl/.config" for Normal,
SPL, TPL, respectively.
It is true that the "multiple .config" strategy provided us the
maximum flexibility and helped to avoid duplicating CONFIGs among
Normal, SPL, TPL, but I have noticed some fatal problems:
[1] It is impossible to share CONFIG options across the images.
If you change the configuration of Main image, you often have to
adjust some SPL configurations correspondingly. Currently, we
cannot handle the dependencies between them. It means one of the
biggest advantages of Kconfig is lost.
[2] It is too painful to change both ".config" and "spl/.config".
Sunxi guys started to work around this problem by creating a new
configuration target. Commit cbdd9a9737 (sunxi: kconfig: Add
%_felconfig rule to enable FEL build of sunxi platforms.) added
"make *_felconfig" to enable CONFIG_SPL_FEL on both images.
Changing the configuration of multiple images in one command is a
generic demand. The current implementation cannot propose any
good solution about this.
[3] Kconfig files are getting ugly and difficult to understand.
Commit b724bd7d63 (dm: Kconfig: Move CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_F_LEN to
Kconfig) has sprinkled "if !SPL_BUILD" over the Kconfig files.
[4] The build system got more complicated than it should be.
To adjust Linux-originated Kconfig to U-Boot, the helper script
"scripts/multiconfig.sh" was introduced. Writing a complicated
text processor is a shell script sometimes caused problems.
Now I believe the "single .config" will serve us better. With it,
all the problems above would go away. Instead, we will have to add
some CONFIG_SPL_* (and CONFIG_TPL_*) options such as CONFIG_SPL_DM,
but we will not have much. Anyway, this is what we do now in
scripts/Makefile.spl.
I admit my mistake with my apology and this commit switches to the
single .config configuration.
It is not so difficult to do that:
- Remove unnecessary processings from scripts/multiconfig.sh
This file will remain for a while to support the current defconfig
format. It will be removed after more cleanups are done.
- Adjust some makefiles and Kconfigs
- Add some entries to include/config_uncmd_spl.h and the new file
scripts/Makefile.uncmd_spl. Some CONFIG options that are not
supported on SPL must be disabled because one .config is shared
between SPL and U-Boot proper going forward. I know this is not
a beautiful solution and I think we can do better, but let's see
how much we will have to describe them.
- update doc/README.kconfig
More cleaning up patches will follow this.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Make sunxi's FEL code fit with the normal U-Boot boot sequence instead of
creating its own. There are some #ifdefs required in start.S. Future work
will hopefully remove these.
This series is available at u-boot-dm, branch sunxi-working.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Introduce a Makefile under arch/$ARCH/ and include it in the
top Makefile (similar to Linux kernel). This allows further
refactoringi like moving architecture-specific code out of global
makefiles, deprecating config variables (CPU, CPUDIR, SOC) or
deprecating arch/$ARCH/config.mk.
In contrary to Linux kernel, U-Boot defines the ARCH variable by
Kconfig, thus the arch Makefile can only included conditionally
after the top config.mk.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Schwierzeck <daniel.schwierzeck@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
SPL should not reference CONFIG_CMD_NAND to decide whether or not
it should build drivers/mtd/nand. CONFIG_CMD_NAND should be only
used to select the NAND utility command on the command parser.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Some CPUs of some architectures have SOC directories.
At present, the build system directly descends into SOC directories
from the top Makefile, but it should generally descend into each
directory from its parent directory.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
When enabled, set up driver model for SPL. This allows SPL to use the same
drivers as the main U-Boot.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>
cmd_u-boot-spl includes $(PLATFORM_LIBS) which changes
when CONFIG_USE_PRIVATE_GCC is updated. The u-boot-spl image
should be re-linked if any prerequisite is newer than it
or the command line has changed.
$(call, if_changed,...) should be used instead of $(call cmd,...).
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
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: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
All files under spl/ and tpl/ are generated during the build process
except spl/Makefile.
We can simplify clean-rule and git-ignore by moving spl/Makefile
to somewhere else.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
