Re: [RFC 02/29] build: trim down Linux bits

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>]

On Tue, 2015-10-06 at 11:42 -0500, Doug Goldstein wrote:
> On 10/6/15 11:15 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Tue, 2015-10-06 at 11:02 -0500, Doug Goldstein wrote:
> > > On 10/6/15 7:42 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > > > > > > On 06.10.15 at 00:03, <cardoe@cardoe.com> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Changes like this should be explained:
> > > > 
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Doug Goldstein <cardoe@cardoe.com>
> > > > > ---
> > > > >  xen/scripts/basic/.gitignore | 1 -
> > > > >  xen/scripts/basic/Makefile   | 1 -
> > > > >  2 files changed, 2 deletions(-)
> > > > > 
> > > > > diff --git a/xen/scripts/basic/.gitignore
> > > > > b/xen/scripts/basic/.gitignore
> > > > > index 9528ec9..a776371 100644
> > > > > --- a/xen/scripts/basic/.gitignore
> > > > > +++ b/xen/scripts/basic/.gitignore
> > > > > @@ -1,2 +1 @@
> > > > >  fixdep
> > > > > -bin2c
> > > > > diff --git a/xen/scripts/basic/Makefile
> > > > > b/xen/scripts/basic/Makefile
> > > > > index ec10d93..4fcef87 100644
> > > > > --- a/xen/scripts/basic/Makefile
> > > > > +++ b/xen/scripts/basic/Makefile
> > > > > @@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
> > > > >  # fixdep: 	 Used to generate dependency information
> > > > > during
> > > > > build process
> > > > >  
> > > > >  hostprogs-y	:= fixdep
> > > > > -hostprogs-$(CONFIG_BUILD_BIN2C)     += bin2c
> > > > 
> > > > Why does Linux need this but we don't?
> > > > 
> > > > Jan
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Its for building firmware into the kernel. It converts a blob/binary
> > > to
> > > a C-style header which can be included into the code. One of the many
> > > things in their scripts directory that we won't need for Kconfig
> > > support.
> > 
> > ISTR there was a fork of Kconfig maintained for easy inclusion into
> > other
> > projects. I can't find it though, the closest I got was 
> > https://github.com/lacombar/kconfig/ which is clearly not the answer
> > (not
> > touched for 5yrs).
> > 
> > Ian.
> > 
> 
> I think this is the project?
> 
> [... snip URL nangled by our stupid spam gateway...]

Yes, that's the one, I think.

> For some reason I couldn't find it when I started out on this originally
> and planned on replacing the first few patches with that. But looking at
> it now, it appears abandoned.

Yeah, it doesn't look like a good option now.

Ian.