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| author | Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> | 2012-10-07 13:18:58 +0200 |
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| committer | Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> | 2012-10-09 08:57:15 +0200 |
| commit | b3dbaa9a60bb9a2bce9db50941450a6fd1dc6e19 (patch) | |
| tree | 0bd14f84370270c83b2c5b06ea5620e08f00d40d /common/Kconfig | |
| parent | 2909d4ca4bba7e0faa8092b972dec95d8106af99 (diff) | |
| download | barebox-b3dbaa9a60bb9a2bce9db50941450a6fd1dc6e19.tar.gz barebox-b3dbaa9a60bb9a2bce9db50941450a6fd1dc6e19.tar.xz | |
console: cleanup Kconfig
Use a choice for the CONSOLE_ACTIVATE_* variables, which is the natural
way of specifying mutually exclusive variabled in Kconfig. Also update
the help texts a bit.
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'common/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | common/Kconfig | 35 |
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/common/Kconfig b/common/Kconfig index 9210739ee4..107774c66d 100644 --- a/common/Kconfig +++ b/common/Kconfig @@ -468,17 +468,19 @@ config CONSOLE_FULL prompt "Enable full console support" help This option enables full console support capable of - handling multiple consoles. + handling multiple consoles. Also the full console support + is able to store the output which comes before a console + is registered in a circular buffer which will be printed + once the first console is registered. Recommended for most + usecases. -config CONSOLE_SIMPLE - bool - default y - depends on !CONSOLE_FULL +choice + prompt "Console activation strategy" + depends on CONSOLE_FULL + default CONSOLE_ACTIVATE_FIRST config CONSOLE_ACTIVATE_FIRST - depends on CONSOLE_FULL bool - default y prompt "activate first console on startup" help Normally on startup all consoles are disabled, so you won't @@ -486,13 +488,28 @@ config CONSOLE_ACTIVATE_FIRST enables the first console. config CONSOLE_ACTIVATE_ALL - depends on CONSOLE_FULL - depends on !CONSOLE_ACTIVATE_FIRST bool prompt "activate all consoles on startup" help Enabling this options activates all consoles on startup, so you will get output and a prompt on all consoles simultaneously. + Only the first registered console will have the full startup + log though. + +config CONSOLE_ACTIVATE_NONE + prompt "leave all consoles disabled" + bool + help + Leave all consoles disabled on startup. Board code or environment + is responsible for enabling a console. Otherwise you'll get a working + barebox, you just won't see anything. + +endchoice + +config CONSOLE_SIMPLE + bool + default y + depends on !CONSOLE_FULL config PARTITION bool |