From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.229]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 901CBDDE38 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 01:07:04 +1000 (EST) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i23so923878wra for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:07:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:07:02 -0600 From: "Grant Likely" Sender: glikely@secretlab.ca To: "Timur Tabi" Subject: Re: Someone broke my allmodconfig build In-Reply-To: <46A4A9DC.6010602@freescale.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed 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> 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: , 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. Cheers, g. -- Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd. grant.likely@secretlab.ca (403) 399-0195