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Subject: Re: Someone broke my allmodconfig build
From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:17:31 -0500
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On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 09:07 -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
> On 7/23/07, Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com> wrote:
> > Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> >
> > >> Hmmm, we should be shipping .dtb files with the tree, so people don't
> > >> have to have dtc installed.
> > >
> > > Unless, of course, we ship dtc ...
> >
> > I like that idea.
> >
> > I don't know much about the kernel build process, but is it normal to ship C files and have kbuild build them and then use the executables to build the rest of the kernel?
> 
> That's how Kconfig is built.

And mktree.

josh