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authorMasahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>2014-08-28 10:56:55 +0900
committerTom Rini <trini@ti.com>2014-08-28 17:18:49 -0400
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parent2134342e57ea6904255015845abf4efd6d72504c (diff)
README.kconfig: document backward compatibility "make *_config"
Commit 3ff291f371fa9858426774f3732924bacb61ed1c (kconfig: convert Kconfig helper script into a shell script) restored "<board>_config" target for backward compatibility. It should be documented. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com> Reviewed-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
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@@ -114,6 +114,13 @@ See below for how each configuration target works in U-Boot:
coalesced together with "<condition:>" prefix for each line as shown above.
This file can be used as an input of "defconfig" target.
+- <board>_config
+
+ This does not exist in Linux's Kconfig.
+ Prior to Kconfig, in U-Boot, "make <board>_config" was used for the
+ configuration. It is still supported for backward compatibility and
+ its behavior is the same as "make <board>_defconfig".
+
Migration steps to Kconfig
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