Subject: Re: Someone broke my allmodconfig build

From: Timur Tabi <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:47:07 -0500

Grant Likely wrote:
> On 7/23/07, Timur Tabi <[email-masked]> 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?

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Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale