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A little more details on defconfig contents

Signed-off-by: Nishanth Menon <[email protected]>
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nmenon committed Mar 11, 2014
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what the heck is a defconfig?
What the heck is a defconfig?
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defconfig is default configuration used to describe the platform
configuration, similar to makefile language
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kernel ?= choice of folder for the kernel
kernel_defconfig ?= default configuration to use
kernel_image ?= what type of image to build - uImage, zImage etc
kernel_image_location ??= e.g. arch/arm/boot/uImage
kernel_image_location ?= e.g. arch/arm/boot/uImage
kernel_dtb ?= arch/arm/boot/dts/omap5-uevm*.dtb (which dtb to use)

bootloader ?= choice of folder for u-boot
bootloader_defconfig ?= default config for u-boot to use
bootloader_image ?= usually null for u-boot.bin for u-boot
bootloader_image ?= usually null for u-boot.img/bin for u-boot
bootloader_image_location ?= e.g. u-boot.bin
bootloader_env ?= what uEnv.txt file to use (example: configs/uEnv.txt)

(for building MLO)
spl_bootloader ?= u-boot
spl_bootloader_defconfig ?= default config for u-boot to use
spl_bootloader_image ?= usually null for MLO
spl_bootloader_image_location ?= MLO

busybox_defconfig_file ?= choice of defconfig (use null for defconfig or a file
if you like custom .config to be used)
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