From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cassiel.sirena.org.uk ([80.68.93.111]:43527 "EHLO cassiel.sirena.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933806Ab3HIQIk (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Aug 2013 12:08:40 -0400 Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 17:08:17 +0100 From: Mark Brown Message-ID: <20130809160817.GG6427@sirena.org.uk> References: <1376046432-12588-1-git-send-email-broonie@kernel.org> <20130809123251.GB5794@merkur.ravnborg.org> <20130809150031.GE6427@sirena.org.uk> <20130809151346.GA6021@merkur.ravnborg.org> <20130809152748.GF6427@sirena.org.uk> <52050C4B.2060606@suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="+WIyXkGFHMyqo73g" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <52050C4B.2060606@suse.cz> Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Allow scripts/* to be cross compiled Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Michal Marek Cc: Sam Ravnborg , linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, John Rigby , Andrey Konovalov --+WIyXkGFHMyqo73g Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 05:35:39PM +0200, Michal Marek wrote: > On 9.8.2013 17:27, Mark Brown wrote: > > ie, we can cross build the kernel but not fixdep, conf or mk_elfconfig > > since those are assumed to be runnable for the kernel build, meaning > > they can't be deployed onto a target system without hoop jumping. > OK, but what what do you need cross compile them and deploy on the > target? Their job is to build the kernel. So if you are going to build > the kernel on the target, you can also build the tools there, can't you? > Or are you using the tools from something else than building the kernel? > I think that we are missing some detail of your use case and it does not > make sense without that detail. Well, fixdep in particular seems like a generically useful thing that you might want installed but in general I agree - Andrey, why are we carrying this patch? --+WIyXkGFHMyqo73g Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJSBRPuAAoJELSic+t+oim9dIsP/1YQdp/gvxaIqfK7Yu++yAYe 3k0F0BaHG8Vs1MrLpWpvu8GtJqvJTYYD/PC8a9snFJjjwRQfZI76u43az57k/uRG tWk9LPGWveoBoehX6m7La4QphMk3g+Tdu1QK7Y+Fh7UpQSu4Pespqv14w2aLYvq3 ML1LRPn7G1ATgIPmM4llP17XnrM1iXtZky9BiP+oI4m69kZ30CYfssR2Fvj3a6QZ NTgh7nS0qsH8DwmgNq8SUv7L98Ik/IqBZgms38V/z7KeNcZM3boSQyPkMLjpWcWR RtdgDklMJRbOhDWIU5Inzpf51qGP9GsGIx5SxExks3ay4tkEg1lkUT8oqS4IF56w 45SnYqutvUGcF2/OnCSexYJeGvLCEDC0lIvh5uscjhJBP3AnEV/PI4VmlRTadxce fP8ebEvMMTbx4Orjko7FpXfqxFEOlmiNyFjFNuReqDbOjppUBZxN3nmeXqXKuZZ3 pjnVeCYuO2jVvb2xS6BE9tGfsMUZXZJzTqp8M3WAPhP135KUTSFwe7bfnOtUeUud v2zUb7d+NDDUSINefVp6V7pbf9i1uS+4N9PalDMOSD4MB5QwgLaGS70Mqf6F4bLF IHqtGZo3e71ljLsTGwTo/Xr6qJkurk2t7JLDhx428D36I2TCytUsE/7KiHShgVV+ u6Fc9mzXe8lTUtbW9Kdt =3Pjl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+WIyXkGFHMyqo73g--