From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:35:54 +1000 From: David Gibson To: Scott Wood Subject: Re: Build failure on treeboot-walnut.cg Message-ID: <20071010023554.GB32426@localhost.localdomain> References: <470AA224.7050709@freescale.com> <20071009030729.GI12499@localhost.localdomain> <20071009160645.GA4304@loki.buserror.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20071009160645.GA4304@loki.buserror.net> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.com, Paul Mackerras , Timur Tabi List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 11:06:45AM -0500, Scott Wood wrote: > On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 01:07:29PM +1000, David Gibson wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 04:33:24PM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote: > > > Question: I'm building a kernel for the 8610. Why is treeboot-walnut.c > > > being compiled at all? > > > > Policy. Compiling everything means build bugs - like this one - can > > be found by everybody, not just those building for the specific > > obscure platform. > > Of course, it also introduces bugs that wouldn't have been an issue if we > didn't try to build everything with the same toolchain. :-P > > I'm also somewhat worried what it'll do to build time as platforms > accumulate. It also provides incentive to keep the bootwrapper small... -- David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_ | _way_ _around_! http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson