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| -rw-r--r-- | Kconfig | 21 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 10 deletions
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ # # For a description of the syntax of this configuration file, -# see Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt. +# see the file Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt in the +# Linux kernel source tree. # mainmenu "U-Boot $UBOOTVERSION Configuration" @@ -17,7 +18,7 @@ config LOCALVERSION string "Local version - append to U-Boot release" help Append an extra string to the end of your U-Boot version. - This will show up on your boot log, for example. + This will show up in your boot log, for example. The string you set here will be appended after the contents of any files with a filename matching localversion* in your object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can @@ -28,11 +29,11 @@ config LOCALVERSION_AUTO default y help This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a - release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current + release tree by looking for Git tags that belong to the current top of tree revision. A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion - if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be + if a Git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. @@ -56,7 +57,7 @@ config SYS_MALLOC_F bool "Enable malloc() pool before relocation" default y if DM help - Before relocation memory is very limited on many platforms. Still, + Before relocation, memory is very limited on many platforms. Still, we can provide a small malloc() pool if needed. Driver model in particular needs this to operate, so that it can allocate the initial serial device and any others that are needed. @@ -66,7 +67,7 @@ config SYS_MALLOC_F_LEN depends on SYS_MALLOC_F default 0x400 help - Before relocation memory is very limited on many platforms. Still, + Before relocation, memory is very limited on many platforms. Still, we can provide a small malloc() pool if needed. Driver model in particular needs this to operate, so that it can allocate the initial serial device and any others that are needed. @@ -78,7 +79,7 @@ menuconfig EXPERT This option allows certain base U-Boot options and settings to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" U-Boot. - Only use this if you really know what you are doing. + Use this only if you really know what you are doing. if EXPERT config SYS_MALLOC_CLEAR_ON_INIT @@ -95,7 +96,7 @@ if EXPERT Then the boot time can be significantly reduced. Warning: When disabling this, please check if malloc calls, maybe - should be replaced by calloc - if expects zeroed memory. + should be replaced by calloc - if one expects zeroed memory. endif endmenu # General setup @@ -117,10 +118,10 @@ config SPL config SPL_SYS_MALLOC_SIMPLE bool depends on SPL - prompt "Only use malloc_simple functions in the spl" + prompt "Only use malloc_simple functions in the SPL" help Say Y here to only use the *_simple malloc functions from - malloc_simple.c, rather then using the versions from dlmalloc.c + malloc_simple.c, rather then using the versions from dlmalloc.c; this will make the SPL binary smaller at the cost of more heap usage as the *_simple malloc functions do not re-use free-ed mem. |