From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from de01egw01.freescale.net (de01egw01.freescale.net [192.88.165.102]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "de01egw01.freescale.net", Issuer "Thawte Premium Server CA" (verified OK)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 080CBDDEC6 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 01:47:26 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <46A4CD7B.7070001@freescale.com> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:47:07 -0500 From: Timur Tabi MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Grant Likely Subject: Re: Someone broke my allmodconfig build References: <20070722001212.5007001d.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <18082.42674.651685.720737@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20070722115354.0c28d704.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <46A4A9DC.6010602@freescale.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Cc: Stephen Rothwell , Paul Mackerras , ppc-dev List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Grant Likely wrote: > On 7/23/07, Timur Tabi wrote: >> Stephen Rothwell wrote: >> >> >> Hmmm, we should be shipping .dtb files with the tree, so people don't >> >> have to have dtc installed. >> > >> > Unless, of course, we ship dtc ... >> >> I like that idea. >> >> I don't know much about the kernel build process, but is it normal to >> ship C files and have kbuild build them and then use the executables >> to build the rest of the kernel? > > That's how Kconfig is built. Then it shouldn't be too hard to refactor the dtc build environment to make it Kbuild-compatible, and then Paul can pull from Jon's dtc repo whenever it gets updated. Jon, what do you think? -- Timur Tabi Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale