On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 01:07:29PM +1000, David Gibson wrote: > On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 04:33:24PM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote: > > Question: I'm building a kernel for the 8610. Why is treeboot-walnut.c > > being compiled at all? > > Policy. Compiling everything means build bugs - like this one - can > be found by everybody, not just those building for the specific > obscure platform.
Of course, it also introduces bugs that wouldn't have been an issue if we didn't try to build everything with the same toolchain. :-P I'm also somewhat worried what it'll do to build time as platforms accumulate. -Scott _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
