Re: Someone broke my allmodconfig build

On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 11:43:37AM +1000, David Gibson wrote:

On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 09:04:13PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:

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On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 10:37:06AM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:

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Stephen Rothwell writes:

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  WRAP    arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.ps3
/home/sfr/kernels/linus/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper: line 113: dtc: command not found
make[2]: *** [arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.ps3] Error 1

Hmmm, we should be shipping .dtb files with the tree, so people don't
have to have dtc installed.

Really?  I don't think we're quite ready for that.  Particularly for the
embedded boards.  Those DTS files still get lots of churn, and having to
update both the .dts and .dtb at the same time seems a bit fragile.

I sort of prefer this option in theory, but it's basically
impossible.  People updating dts files by patch would also have to
update the dtb, which can't be done in a normal patch, since they're
binary.

I agree.  Shipping a magic binary blob, especially ones that haven't
really settled out, will be a real headache for poeple.

I'm working with sfr now on importing dtc into the kernel tree.

IIRC, this was discussed when dtc first came into existence but it was
pooh-poohed.  I forget why now.

Mark