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From: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
To: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] powerpc: switch to using thin archives if COMPILE_TEST is set
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 14:48:37 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161020144837.42fb443b@roar.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wph44n9l.fsf@concordia.ellerman.id.au>

On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 22:00:06 +1100
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> wrote:

> Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Enable thin archives build for powerpc when COMPILE_TEST is set.
> > Thin archives are explained in this commit:
> >
> >   a5967db9af51a84f5e181600954714a9e4c69f1f
> >
> > This is a gradual way to introduce the option to testers.  
> 
> I think I'd rather this was actually a user-selectable option, eg.
> 
> config USE_THIN_ARCHIVES
> 	bool "Build the kernel using thin archives"
>         default n
> 	select THIN_ARCHIVES
> 	help
> 	  Build the kernel using thin archives.
> 	  If you're unsure say N.

Okay, that should be easy. I'll respin the series.

Thanks,
Nick

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-20  3:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-19  3:15 [PATCH 0/7] build updates Nicholas Piggin
2016-10-19  3:15 ` [PATCH 1/7] powerpc: use the new post-link pass to check relocations Nicholas Piggin
2016-10-19  3:15 ` [PATCH 2/7] powerpc: add arch/powerpc/tools directory Nicholas Piggin
2016-10-19  3:15 ` [PATCH 3/7] powerpc/64s: tool to flag direct branches from unrelocated interrupt vectors Nicholas Piggin
2016-10-19  4:28   ` Balbir Singh
2016-10-19  6:01     ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-10-19 10:57   ` Michael Ellerman
2016-10-19  3:15 ` [PATCH 4/7] powerpc/64: tool to check head sections location sanity Nicholas Piggin
2016-11-15  0:55   ` Michael Ellerman
2016-11-22  4:54     ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-11-22  5:56       ` Michael Ellerman
2016-10-19  3:15 ` [PATCH 5/7] powerpc/64: handle linker stubs in low .text code Nicholas Piggin
2016-10-19  3:15 ` [PATCH 6/7] powerpc: switch to using thin archives if COMPILE_TEST is set Nicholas Piggin
2016-10-19  5:57   ` Stephen Rothwell
2016-10-19  9:26     ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-10-19 11:00   ` Michael Ellerman
2016-10-20  3:48     ` Nicholas Piggin [this message]
2016-11-22  0:34   ` [6/7] " Michael Ellerman
2016-10-19  3:16 ` [PATCH 7/7] powerpc/64: allow CONFIG_RELOCATABLE if COMPILE_TEST Nicholas Piggin
2017-05-03 22:18   ` [7/7] " Michael Ellerman
2016-10-19  7:44 ` [PATCH 0/7] build updates Nicholas Piggin
2016-10-21  6:35   ` [PATCH 0/7] build updates (and RFC on one-pass kallsyms generation) Nicholas Piggin

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