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diff --git a/Documentation/getting_started/kconfig.md b/Documentation/getting_started/kconfig.md index c9e9b3c61a..bff077c47f 100644 --- a/Documentation/getting_started/kconfig.md +++ b/Documentation/getting_started/kconfig.md @@ -200,9 +200,9 @@ values to be set based on other values. visible in the front end. -## Keywords +### Keywords -### bool +#### bool The 'bool' keyword assigns a boolean type to a symbol. The allowable values for a boolean type are 'n' or 'y'. The keyword can be followed by an optional prompt @@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ bool \[prompt\] \[if <expr>\] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -### choice +#### choice This creates a selection list of one or more boolean symbols. For bools, only one of the symbols can be selected, and one will be be forced to be selected, @@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ choice \[symbol\] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -### comment +#### comment This keyword defines a line of text that is displayed to the user in the configuration frontend and is additionally written to the output files. @@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ comment <prompt> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -### config +#### config This is the keyword that starts a block defining a Kconfig symbol. The symbol modifiers follow the 'config' statement. @@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ config <symbol> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -### default +#### default The ‘default’ keyword assigns a value to a symbol in the case where no preset value exists, i.e. the symbol is not present and assigned in .config. If there @@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ default <expr> \[if <expr>\] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -### def_bool +#### def_bool ‘def_bool’ is similar to the 'bool' keyword in that it sets a symbol’s type to boolean. It lets you set the type and default value at the same time, instead @@ -437,7 +437,7 @@ def_bool <expr> \[if <expr>\] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -### depends on +#### depends on This defines a dependency for a menu entry, including symbols and comments. It behaves the same as surrounding the menu entry with an if/endif block. If the @@ -466,28 +466,28 @@ depends on <expr> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -### endchoice +#### endchoice This ends a choice block. See the 'choice' keyword for more information and an example. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -### endif +#### endif This ends a block started by the 'if' keyword. See the 'if' keyword for more information and an example. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -### endmenu +#### endmenu This ends a menu block. See the 'menu' keyword for more information and an example. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -### help +#### help The 'help' keyword defines the subsequent block of text as help for a config or choice block. The help block is started by the 'help' keyword on a line by @@ -519,7 +519,7 @@ help <help text> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -### hex +#### hex This is another symbol type specifier, specifying an unsigned integer value formatted as hexadecimal. @@ -555,7 +555,7 @@ hex <expr> \[if <expr>\] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -### if +#### if The 'if' keyword is overloaded, used in two different ways. The first definition enables and disables various other keywords, and follows the other keyword @@ -596,7 +596,7 @@ endif -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -### int +#### int A type setting keyword, defines a symbol as an integer, accepting only signed numeric values. The values can be further restricted with the ‘range’ keyword. @@ -632,7 +632,7 @@ int <expr> \[if <expr>\] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -### mainmenu +#### mainmenu The 'mainmenu' keyword sets the title or title bar of the configuration front end, depending on how the configuration program decides to use it. It can only @@ -652,7 +652,7 @@ mainmenu "coreboot configuration" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -### menu +#### menu The 'menu' and 'endmenu' keywords tell the configuration front end that the enclosed statements are part of a group of related pieces. @@ -699,7 +699,7 @@ endmenu -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -### prompt +#### prompt The 'prompt' keyword sets the text displayed for a config symbol or choice in configuration front end. @@ -752,7 +752,7 @@ prompt <prompt> \[if <expr>\] prompt "Prompt value 2" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -### range +#### range This sets the allowable minimum and maximum entries for hex or int type config symbols. @@ -774,7 +774,7 @@ range <symbol> <symbol> \[if <expr>\] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -### select +#### select The ‘select’ keyword is used within a bool type config block. In coreboot (and other projects that don't use modules), the 'select' keyword can force an @@ -818,7 +818,7 @@ select <symbol> \[if <expr>\] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -### source +#### source The 'source' keyword functions much the same as an 'include' statement in c. This pulls one or more files into Kconfig at the location of the 'source' @@ -877,7 +877,7 @@ statements that generate a list of all the platform names: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -### string +#### string The last of the symbol type assignment keywords. 'string' allows a text value to be entered. @@ -923,7 +923,7 @@ keyword later. See the prompt keyword for more notes. -## Keywords not used in coreboot at the time of writing: +### Keywords not used in coreboot at the time of writing: - allnoconfig_y: - defconfig_list @@ -948,7 +948,7 @@ statements: #define SYMBOL NAME XXX -##### Symbol types: +#### Symbol types: - bool, int, and hex types - Every symbol of one of these types created in the Kconfig tree is defined. It doesn’t matter whether they’re in an if/endif block, or have a ‘depends on’ statement - they ALL end up being defined in @@ -1168,19 +1168,19 @@ saved .config file. As always, a 'select' statement overrides any specified ## Kconfig Editor Highlighting -#### vim: +### vim: vim has syntax highlighting for Kconfig built in (or at least as a part of vim-common), but most editors do not. -#### ultraedit: +### ultraedit: https://github.com/martinlroth/wordfiles/blob/master/kconfig.uew -#### atom: +### atom: https://github.com/martinlroth/language-kconfig |