In message 462946CF.1000807@freescale.com you wrote:
Could you post a list of configuration parameters that you'd rather not see in a board header file? When I created MPC8349ITX.h, I just followed the example of other 83xx boards. I defined the network CONFIG_ options, because I thought that a flash-default setting would be useful.
At least partially it's a matter of taste. I tend to rather make sure that a user of the board sees that he must provide his own network configuration by providing no default setting, rather then having to deal with nasty network issues because several boards share the same IP or - even worse - MAC addresses.
Just use common sense. Anything that is board-specific should never be set in the board config file because that would mean that all boards would share this property in the default configuration.
An absolute no-no is CONFIG_ETH*ADDR.
Similar, attempts to define a standard setting for "serial#" are seriously broken.
I also consider it bad design to set CONFIG_IPADDR an CONFIG_HOSTNAME
Note that you *can* do all these things, if you know exactly what you are doing - that's whey the feature is there. But shipping boards to customer with all set to the same MAC address is a felony and deserves serious punishment (hello Andrea!).
Ulf was (originally) asking for a customization feature; of course it makes sense to customize boards during production, for example to set board-specific values for MAC address, serial number, etc. But this can, and should, be done without creating different U-Boot images.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk