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+# Loads a Kconfig and a .config and prints information about a symbol.
+
+import kconfiglib
+import sys
+
+# Create a Config object representing a Kconfig configuration. (Any number of
+# these can be created -- the library has no global state.)
+conf = kconfiglib.Config(sys.argv[1])
+
+# Load values from a .config file. 'srctree' is an environment variable set by
+# the Linux makefiles to the top-level directory of the kernel tree. It needs
+# to be used here for the script to work with alternative build directories
+# (specified e.g. with O=).
+conf.load_config("$srctree/arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig")
+
+# Print some information about a symbol. (The Config class implements
+# __getitem__() to provide a handy syntax for getting symbols.)
+print conf["SERIAL_UARTLITE_CONSOLE"]