On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 08:05:19AM +0200, Ulf Samuelsson wrote:
Lets face it, everyone knows that the current way of configuring u-boot is horrible.
yup
GPL does not mean that *you* need to be aware and approve each and every change.
Well, he is the maintainer. Like it or not, he *is*. Live with it or fork and show that you can do it better.
I just try to make the embedded Linux design flow more accessible to anyone that is interested. U-Boot is only a small part of that.
I don't understand why you need changes in u-boot in order to achieve this. We use the same scenario for quite some time in PTXdist; ptxdist has a view of "per project" vs. "per user" vs. "per board" properties, so if you for example what to change something for the root filesystem, you use
ptxdist menuconfig
To change user specific options, e.g. proxy, use
ptxdist setup
and, what you need here, is
ptxdist boardsetup
which brings up a Kconfig dialog which lets you chose things like IP address, netmask, nfsroot path, currently connected serial port etc. So if you setup a board, simply do the changes in the user dialogs and run
ptxdist test setenv
This starts an expect script [1] which automatically connects to your u-boot console, cleans up whatever environment it finds there and re-programs from a well defined project environment, consisting of "project" dependend parts plus the information you entered in the step above. The user doesn't have to cope with complex quoting rules , 0x vs non-0x and all the inconveniences the u-boot interface has.
All that without any change to u-boot code.
I hope You agree that you cannot control what people put in their include/configs/<board>.h files.
Well, this is open source. I cannot imagine that Wolfgang will control whatever you might want to do. You are perfectly free to do what you want. That doesn't change the fact that he is the maintainer and he decides what comes into his tree.
Robert
[1] Yes, expect is tcl and uggly as hell. But there is nothing better available out there, at least not without major founding, and it somehow works.