[coreboot-gerrit] Change in coreboot[master]: [RFC] Change the USE_BLOBS Kconfig name to DOWNLOAD_BLOBS

Arthur Heymans (Code Review) gerrit at coreboot.org
Sat Jan 6 00:39:29 CET 2018


Arthur Heymans has uploaded this change for review. ( https://review.coreboot.org/23142


Change subject: [RFC] Change the USE_BLOBS Kconfig name to DOWNLOAD_BLOBS
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[RFC] Change the USE_BLOBS Kconfig name to DOWNLOAD_BLOBS

Once this repository is pulled the option does not prevent blobs from
being used, so it is a little misleading.

Change-Id: I4bc4821b376b07f0014f38b9a4aeda81de24732b
Signed-off-by: Arthur Heymans <arthur at aheymans.xyz>
---
M src/Kconfig
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)



  git pull ssh://review.coreboot.org:29418/coreboot refs/changes/42/23142/1

diff --git a/src/Kconfig b/src/Kconfig
index 6896d0e..4e2836a 100644
--- a/src/Kconfig
+++ b/src/Kconfig
@@ -185,12 +185,14 @@
 	  Make coreboot create a table of timer-ID/timer-value pairs to
 	  allow measuring time spent at different phases of the boot process.
 
-config USE_BLOBS
-	bool "Allow use of binary-only repository"
+config DOWNLOAD_BLOBS
+	bool "Download or update blobs from the binary-only repository"
 	help
 	  This draws in the blobs repository, which contains binary files that
 	  might be required for some chipsets or boards.
 	  This flag ensures that a "Free" option remains available for users.
+	  One should note that once this repository is pulled, the build system
+	  will still hook up these blobs whether this option is set or not.
 
 config COVERAGE
 	bool "Code coverage support"

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