From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.crashing.org (gate.crashing.org [63.228.1.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E38D7B6FD2 for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2012 11:26:53 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <1333416395.30734.70.camel@pasglop> Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/boot: Only build board support files when required. From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: David Gibson Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 11:26:35 +1000 In-Reply-To: <20120403010002.GE7481@truffala.fritz.box> References: <20120403005558.GA9194@thor.bakeyournoodle.com> <20120403010002.GE7481@truffala.fritz.box> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: Frank =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Svendsb=F8e?= , LinuxPPC-dev , Wolfgang Denk , robert.karl.berger@gmail.com List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , 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.