Dear Mike Frysinger,
In message 201012201436.49709.vapier@gentoo.org you wrote:
as for the cpu selection, obviously that cannot be in any common file since the cpu variant and silicon rev is about as board specific as you could possibly get.
I did not ask for moving it into a common file, but into the board config file.
And why cannot it be set in the board config file like every other board doing it?
ive explained in the past why. one of the reasons why i think config.mk makes more sense is this setting is only used for compilation (build flags). it isnt used directly anywhere in the config.h or related code. i also find it significantly cleaner than the cpu handling as found in the arm or m68k or ppc ports where copy & pasting swaths of code is the rule.
OK, so this is a "I think it makes more sense" and a "I find it cleaner". There was no "cannot", as far as I can tell.
I think it makes a lot of sense to try and move all board specific configuration settings into a single file (the board config file); this will, among other things, make it easier to make such settings accessable through some config tool - assume somebody wants to take steps toward Kconfig or such.
So please get rid of this config.mk file.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk