On Sunday, December 19, 2010 15:09:44 Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > I want to get rid of all these board specific config.mk files. > > > And I don't see a good reason why it would be needed here. Other > > > boards don;t need any of this either. > > > > then where exactly are boards supposed to specify their own custom build > > settings ? like optimizations that they want to enable on specific > > Boards should not need custom build rules in the first place.
i didnt say build rules, i said settings. that means tweaking things like CFLAGS. none of the Blackfin board config.mk's have custom build rules. > > files/subdirs ? many Blackfin boards prefer speed over size in the > > compression code because we arent hurting for space, and most people > > prefer the faster decompression at runtime. without a board config.mk, > > that isnt possible. > > Can these be gobal settings for all BF boards then? no, that doesnt make any sense. just because i want some of the boards i maintain to favor speed over size doesnt mean every board maintainer should. thus the settings are in the board-specific config.mk where they should be. -mike
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