[coreboot] [PATCH] Make various DEBUG defines user-configurable in menuconfig

[Myles Watson]

> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:37:02AM -0600, Myles Watson wrote:
> > I like the idea of having Options that we use more available.
> >
> > DEBUG_SMI was the default.  Now it isn't.
> > DEBUG_RAM_SETUP was the default for i440bx & vx800
> 
> True, but that's intentional. Just like the "use lzma" or "execute vga
> blob"
> options these are now global, user-configurable (as opposed to per-board
> in Options.lb in newconfig). The old per-board or per-chipset defaults
> don't
> matter much, the user chooses if he/she wants the option.
> 
> I think these options are good candidates for filtering in the compare
> script.
As long as the functionality isn't changed, I agree.  I don't have any of
the affected boards to test.

> > in the Kontron code,
> >  #if CONFIG_DEFAULT_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL > 8
> > This never does anything, since 8 is SPEW.
> 
> Due to the recent LOGLEVEL changes, yes.
Before the changes you pointed out to me that SPEW was 8.

> We should do a repo-wide
> fixing of any such occurences (there may be more of them). This is
> unrelated to my patch though, the check is no longer correct with and
> without the patch.
I was pointing out that it isn't compiled in, so if it breaks abuild, it
will break abuild when the CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL line changes.

> I'll post a followup-patch for this issue if nobody beats me to it.
> 
> 
> > Right now I'd like to match newconfig and kill it as
> > quickly as possible.
> 
> Sure, same here. I don't think this patch interferes with this effort
> though.
As long as all of the code that gets enabled/disabled is only print
statements, that's probably true.  I was worried that some of these boards
may depend on the correct setting of those debug flags to be functional.

Thanks,
Myles