Re: [PATCH 11/15] zImage wrapper for Ebony

[Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 05:54:43PM -0700, Mark A. Greer wrote:
> > > 
> > > I can see potential benefit in allowing multiple dtbs to be included, to
> > > be chosen at runtime (such as from a board ID passed from the bootloader,
> > > or based on detection of how the board is configured (such as detecting
> > > whether an MDS board is plugged into a PCI backplane, or is acting as a
> > > PCI agent, or is standalone)).  But why all of them?
> > 
> > Simplicity, and a better chance to pick up syntax errors at least for
> > obscure platforms.  Note that they'd be going as separate modules into
> > a .a, so only the relevant ones would be included in the final zImage.
> 
> This seems like overkill to me.  I believe Paul's intention was that
> you could run the wrapper script any time (e.g., well after you built
> the zImage).  I don't really see the benefit of building them all and
> now you have to worry about stale .S' in the .a file when it so easy to
> just run the wrapper script with whatever .dts file you want.

I don't care either way, but it would be nice to decide on a direction
soon so people can start working on patches again.  Right now we have
David's 3 patches, Scott's 18 or so, and I'm looking at adding a few
for new platform support.

josh