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authorMartin Roth <martinroth@google.com>2016-01-19 12:01:09 -0700
committerMartin Roth <martinroth@google.com>2016-01-21 16:50:58 +0100
commita5a628e86b5484200977d2d4f4a62a0d972aaf4a (patch)
treedfd879027086bfd1d76549b874ae2f1733387c87 /src
parent5d935b3377ac54009e69e7aa91616ee2ded4c9b2 (diff)
downloadcoreboot-a5a628e86b5484200977d2d4f4a62a0d972aaf4a.tar.xz
Kconfig: add comments for toolchain choices
- While we're working on fixing clang for coreboot, mark it as not currently working so that it doesn't look like a reasonable choice. - Add help on how to make the toolchains Change-Id: Ib37093ca98d0328fad40dd7886c98d00f78bd58e Signed-off-by: Martin Roth <martinroth@google.com> Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/13053 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Reviewed-by: Stefan Reinauer <stefan.reinauer@coreboot.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/Kconfig19
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/Kconfig b/src/Kconfig
index f09e5061a2..1fd271d599 100644
--- a/src/Kconfig
+++ b/src/Kconfig
@@ -58,6 +58,14 @@ choice
help
This option allows you to select the compiler used for building
coreboot.
+ You must build the coreboot crosscompiler for the board that you
+ have selected.
+
+ To build all the GCC crosscompilers (takes a LONG time), run:
+ make crossgcc
+
+ For help on individual architectures, run the command:
+ make help_toolchain
config COMPILER_GCC
bool "GCC"
@@ -67,9 +75,14 @@ config COMPILER_GCC
For details see http://gcc.gnu.org.
config COMPILER_LLVM_CLANG
- bool "LLVM/clang"
- help
- Use LLVM/clang to build coreboot.
+ bool "LLVM/clang (TESTING ONLY - Not currently working)"
+ help
+ Use LLVM/clang to build coreboot. To use this, you must build the
+ coreboot version of the clang compiler. Run the command
+ make clang
+ Note that this option is not currently working correctly and should
+ really only be selected if you're trying to work on getting clang
+ operational.
For details see http://clang.llvm.org.