Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout (multiple ways to show the same Kconfig configs?)

2009-06-02 Thread Kumar Gala
On May 1, 2009, at 6:47 AM, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 07:44:48AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: >> >> On Apr 21, 2009, at 3:52 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: >> >>> Dear Kumar Gala, >>> >>> In message <93A8F58D-8C13-4F72-AFF3- >>> cf4fdf9a3...@kernel.crashing.org> you wrote: > In

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout (multiple ways to show the same Kconfig configs?)

2009-05-01 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 07:44:48AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: > > On Apr 21, 2009, at 3:52 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > > >Dear Kumar Gala, > > > >In message <93A8F58D-8C13-4F72-AFF3- > >cf4fdf9a3...@kernel.crashing.org> you wrote: > >> > >>>In my experience, I tend to search for board names first.

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout (multiple ways to show the same Kconfig configs?)

2009-04-22 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 07:44:48AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: > > On Apr 21, 2009, at 3:52 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > > >Dear Kumar Gala, > > > >In message <93A8F58D-8C13-4F72-AFF3- > >cf4fdf9a3...@kernel.crashing.org> you wrote: > >> > >>>In my experience, I tend to search for board names first.

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout (multiple ways to show the same Kconfig configs?)

2009-04-22 Thread Kumar Gala
On Apr 21, 2009, at 3:52 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Kumar Gala, > > In message <93A8F58D-8C13-4F72-AFF3- > cf4fdf9a3...@kernel.crashing.org> you wrote: >> >>> In my experience, I tend to search for board names first. >> >> So back to the root of my question, do we just have one really long

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

2009-04-22 Thread Robert Schwebel
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 07:22:31PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > > Dear Jon Smirl, > > > > In message <9e4733910904211533s58df5764na715986b36824...@mail.gmail.com> > > you wrote: > >> > >> >> - for those who look for a board name, we should supp

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

2009-04-21 Thread Ben Warren
Jon Smirl wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > >> Dear Jon Smirl, >> >> In message <9e4733910904211533s58df5764na715986b36824...@mail.gmail.com> you >> wrote: >> > - for those who look for a board name, we should support this, > probably wih an initial

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

2009-04-21 Thread Jon Smirl
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Jon Smirl, > > In message <9e4733910904211533s58df5764na715986b36824...@mail.gmail.com> you > wrote: >> >> >> - for those who look for a board name, we should support this, >> >>  probably wih an initial selection by the first letter (c

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

2009-04-21 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Jon Smirl, In message <9e4733910904211533s58df5764na715986b36824...@mail.gmail.com> you wrote: > > >> - for those who look for a board name, we should support this, > >>  probably wih an initial selection by the first letter (case > >>  insensitive) of the board name. > >> > >>  like this:  

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

2009-04-21 Thread Kumar Gala
On Apr 21, 2009, at 5:59 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Kumar, > > In message acf6ca567...@kernel.crashing.org> you wrote: >> >>> I'm not an expert for the capabilities of Kconfig, but one looong >>> list >>> with hundrets of entries clearly makes no sense. We obviously need >>> sum >>> gro

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

2009-04-21 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Kumar, In message you wrote: > > > I'm not an expert for the capabilities of Kconfig, but one looong list > > with hundrets of entries clearly makes no sense. We obviously need sum > > grouping / structuring. > > > > IMHO there should be several options: > > > > - for those who look for a b

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

2009-04-21 Thread Jon Smirl
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Kumar Gala wrote: > > On Apr 21, 2009, at 3:52 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > >> Dear Kumar Gala, >> >> In message <93a8f58d-8c13-4f72-aff3-cf4fdf9a3...@kernel.crashing.org> you >> wrote: >>> In my experience, I tend to search for board names first. >>> >>> So bac

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

2009-04-21 Thread Kumar Gala
On Apr 21, 2009, at 3:52 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Kumar Gala, > > In message <93A8F58D-8C13-4F72-AFF3- > cf4fdf9a3...@kernel.crashing.org> you wrote: >> >>> In my experience, I tend to search for board names first. >> >> So back to the root of my question, do we just have one really long

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

2009-04-21 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Kumar Gala, In message <93a8f58d-8c13-4f72-aff3-cf4fdf9a3...@kernel.crashing.org> you wrote: > > > In my experience, I tend to search for board names first. > > So back to the root of my question, do we just have one really long > list of board names? I'm not an expert for the capabiliti

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

2009-04-21 Thread Kumar Gala
On Apr 21, 2009, at 3:02 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Jon Smirl, > > In message > <9e4733910904210841n6c7f0db5s57eee23520dc...@mail.gmail.com> you > wrote: >> >> My vote would be to require all boards in the board/ directory to be >> in a vendor directory. When you buy the board it is pre

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

2009-04-21 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Jon Smirl, In message <9e4733910904210841n6c7f0db5s57eee23520dc...@mail.gmail.com> you wrote: > > My vote would be to require all boards in the board/ directory to be > in a vendor directory. When you buy the board it is pretty obvious > from the accompanying packaging/manuals who the vendo

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

2009-04-21 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Jon Smirl, In message <9e4733910904210833u79f3d4dfv2db7449162462...@mail.gmail.com> you wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > > Dear Jon Smirl, > > > > In message <9e4733910904201706u58387d5fod231dd4b8ac88...@mail.gmail.com> > you wrote: > >> > >> Everyone will k

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

2009-04-21 Thread Scott Wood
Jon Smirl wrote: > My vote would be to require all boards in the board/ directory to be > in a vendor directory. When you buy the board it is pretty obvious > from the accompanying packaging/manuals who the vendor is. Companies and product lines get bought, names change... IMHO, architecture (s

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

2009-04-21 Thread Jon Smirl
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Jon Smirl, > > In message <9e4733910904201712x68658ddfk3c18298deb82b...@mail.gmail.com> you > wrote: >> >> There are a lot of boards that could be moved into a vendor subdirs. I >> suspect we have less than 100 vendors. Maybe as few as

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

2009-04-21 Thread Jon Smirl
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Jon Smirl, > > In message <9e4733910904201706u58387d5fod231dd4b8ac88...@mail.gmail.com> you > wrote: >> >> Everyone will know the vendor of their board. You could alphabetize > > Really? So who is the board vendor for the MPC8360 board

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

2009-04-21 Thread Alessandro Rubini
> So should we leave the nomadik as a single-entry vendor board > or leave it as is? Argh! I mean: leave it alone in its own vendor-dir or move it up one level? I got the idea vendor dirs were preferred anyway (as suggested by JC), but Wolfgang's last message suggests the opposite. Sorry for mis

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

2009-04-21 Thread Alessandro Rubini
> There is many vendors which have just a single board; Like the ST nomadik8815 I maintain. > Just adding an additional directory level for a single entry does > not make much sense to me. So should we leave the nomadik as a single-entry vendor board or leave it as is? (more nomadik boards will

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

2009-04-21 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Jon Smirl, In message <9e4733910904201712x68658ddfk3c18298deb82b...@mail.gmail.com> you wrote: > > There are a lot of boards that could be moved into a vendor subdirs. I > suspect we have less than 100 vendors. Maybe as few as 60. There is many vendors which have just a single board; also,

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

2009-04-21 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Jon Smirl, In message <9e4733910904201706u58387d5fod231dd4b8ac88...@mail.gmail.com> you wrote: > > Everyone will know the vendor of their board. You could alphabetize Really? So who is the board vendor for the MPC8360 board? Freescale or Logic PD? And who is the vendor for the ADS5121? Fre

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

2009-04-21 Thread Jerry Van Baren
Jon Smirl wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Jon Smirl wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Kumar Gala >> wrote: >>> On Apr 20, 2009, at 5:01 PM, Jon Smirl wrote: >>> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Kumar Gala wrote: > In chatting w/Wolfgang on IRC he felt that we sh

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

2009-04-20 Thread Jon Smirl
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Jon Smirl wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Kumar Gala wrote: >> >> On Apr 20, 2009, at 5:01 PM, Jon Smirl wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Kumar Gala >>> wrote: In chatting w/Wolfgang on IRC he felt that we should maintain the >>>

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

2009-04-20 Thread Jon Smirl
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Kumar Gala wrote: > > On Apr 20, 2009, at 5:01 PM, Jon Smirl wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Kumar Gala >> wrote: >>> >>> In chatting w/Wolfgang on IRC he felt that we should maintain the >>> highlevel picking a board implies ARCH and other settings.

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

2009-04-20 Thread Kumar Gala
On Apr 20, 2009, at 5:01 PM, Jon Smirl wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Kumar Gala > wrote: >> In chatting w/Wolfgang on IRC he felt that we should maintain the >> highlevel picking a board implies ARCH and other settings. >> >> However this seems like a lot of boards in one list.. To

Re: [U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

2009-04-20 Thread Jon Smirl
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Kumar Gala wrote: > In chatting w/Wolfgang on IRC he felt that we should maintain the > highlevel picking a board implies ARCH and other settings. > > However this seems like a lot of boards in one list.. To get a rough > order of magnitude MAKEALL is ~880 lines.  

[U-Boot] Kconfig menu layout

2009-04-20 Thread Kumar Gala
In chatting w/Wolfgang on IRC he felt that we should maintain the highlevel picking a board implies ARCH and other settings. However this seems like a lot of boards in one list.. To get a rough order of magnitude MAKEALL is ~880 lines. How can we reduce this to make it a bit more manageable