On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 11:06:45AM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> 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.
It also provides incentive to keep the bootwrapper small...
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