From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: "Frank Svendsbøe" <frank.svendsboe@gmail.com>,
LinuxPPC-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
"Wolfgang Denk" <wd@denx.de>,
robert.karl.berger@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/boot: Only build board support files when required.
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 11:26:35 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1333416395.30734.70.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120403010002.GE7481@truffala.fritz.box>
On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 11:00 +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 10:55:59AM +1000, Tony Breeds wrote:
> > Currently we build all board files regardless of the final zImage
> > target. This is sub-optimal (in terms on compilation) and leads to
> > problems in one platform needlessly causing failures for other
> > platforms.
>
> Um.. I believe the one platform breaking another is actually working
> as intended. I think Paulus did it this way to stop people breaking
> platforms other than the one they were working on without realising
> it.
But that doesn't make sense to enforce that accross CPU families since
they cannot be built together within a single kernel anyway...
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-03 1:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-03 0:55 [PATCH] powerpc/boot: Only build board support files when required Tony Breeds
2012-04-03 1:00 ` David Gibson
2012-04-03 1:26 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2012-04-03 1:31 ` Tony Breeds
2012-04-03 1:41 ` Stephen Rothwell
2012-04-03 1:55 ` Tony Breeds
2012-04-03 1:57 ` Stephen Rothwell
2012-04-04 1:00 ` [PATCH v2] " Tony Breeds
2012-04-05 3:44 ` [PATCH] " Geoff Levand
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