From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from outbound8-dub-R.bigfish.com (outbound-dub.frontbridge.com [213.199.154.16]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "*.bigfish.com", Issuer "*.bigfish.com" (not verified)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6F7DDDEA0 for ; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 08:24:53 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <46BCE5AA.4060805@am.sony.com> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:24:42 -0700 From: Geoff Levand MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Segher Boessenkool Subject: Re: DTC 1.0.0 Release Coming? References: <20070726030550.GA1149@localhost.localdomain> <20070726142739.GB18684@localhost.localdomain> <20070727013331.GB1561@localhost.localdomain> <20070806084813.5432ba91@weaponx.rchland.ibm.com> <20070810013001.GF17370@localhost.localdomain> <20070809203754.2e9192c5@zod.rchland.ibm.com> <20070810025944.GI17370@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Jon Loeliger , David Gibson List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Segher Boessenkool wrote: >>>> Actually, after discussions with Stephen and Paulus, we decided not >>>> to >>>> take this route. In any case having Kbuild like versioning wouldn't >>>> actually help us any in integrating into a full Kbuild system. >>> >>> Can you elaborate why you decided not to? I'm just curious. >> >> We decided that since a formal dtc release was imminent, it would be >> simpler to make dtc a new kernel build requirement, > > For _all_ kernel builds? Most people building a powerpc > kernel don't need it. The dtc is run from the wrapper script, so if you build for a platform that uses a dts source file, then you'll need the dtc. If you don't build for one of those platforms, then you won't needed it. So a 'make allXXXconfig' needs the dtc to be installed since it builds platforms that use dts source files. -Geoff