Re: Merge dtc

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>]

On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 09:21 +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> David Woodhouse writes:
> 
> > I think this is a bad idea -- it's hardly a difficult for those people
> > who _do_ need dts to obtain it separately.
> 
> The trouble is that it's not just people who are making a kernel for a
> specific embedded board that need dtc.  These days anyone who wants to
> try cross-compiling a powerpc kernel and does a make allyesconfig, or
> who picks cell_defconfig or ps3_defconfig to try, needs dtc if their
> kernel build is to go all the way through and give them an exit status
> of 0.  I can see that for people who are trying to do the right thing
> and compile-test their patch across architectures, it's annoying that
> powerpc has an extra external requirement when no other architecture
> does, and it usually just means they don't compile-test on powerpc.
> 
> Of the various options for solving this, including dtc in the kernel
> sources seems best to me.

Make vmlinux the default target instead of zImage would seem like a
better answer. I'm surprised that it isn't like that already, in fact --
and I'm only inferring that it isn't from your message. I always thought
that if I typed 'make' I got the vmlinux and not a zImage.

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dwmw2