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-rw-r--r--doc/README.kconfig7
-rw-r--r--doc/develop/moveconfig.rst3
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/README.kconfig b/doc/README.kconfig
index 808cf56..0689f66 100644
--- a/doc/README.kconfig
+++ b/doc/README.kconfig
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ Kconfig. Each field of boards.cfg was converted as follows:
Vendor -> CONFIG_SYS_VENDOR defined by Kconfig
Board -> CONFIG_SYS_BOARD defined by Kconfig
Target -> File name of defconfig (configs/<target>_defconfig)
+ Options -> CONFIG_SYS_EXTRA_OPTIONS defined by Kconfig
Maintainers -> "M:" entry of MAINTAINERS
@@ -139,6 +140,12 @@ When removing an obsolete board, the following steps are generally needed:
TODO
----
+- The option field of boards.cfg, which was used for the pre-Kconfig
+ configuration, moved to CONFIG_SYS_EXTRA_OPTIONS verbatim now.
+ Board maintainers are expected to implement proper Kconfig options
+ and switch over to them. Eventually CONFIG_SYS_EXTRA_OPTIONS will go away.
+ CONFIG_SYS_EXTRA_OPTIONS should not be used for new boards.
+
- In the pre-Kconfig, a single board had multiple entries in the boards.cfg
file with differences in the option fields. The corresponding defconfig
files were auto-generated when switching to Kconfig. Now we have too many
diff --git a/doc/develop/moveconfig.rst b/doc/develop/moveconfig.rst
index bfb7aff..2f53ea5 100644
--- a/doc/develop/moveconfig.rst
+++ b/doc/develop/moveconfig.rst
@@ -295,7 +295,8 @@ Available options
-y, --yes
Instead of prompting, automatically go ahead with all operations. This
- includes cleaning up headers, the config whitelist and the README.
+ includes cleaning up headers, CONFIG_SYS_EXTRA_OPTIONS, the config whitelist
+ and the README.
To see the complete list of supported options, run::