Re: [ptxdist] [PATCH] Kernel: never provide a development prebuild package

[Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>]

On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 01:00:44PM +0100, Robert Schwebel wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 12:59:55PM +0100, Juergen Beisert wrote:
> > Even if the developer enables the usage of prebuild packages, the Linux kernel
> > should not be part of it. The kernel is a too sensitive part and its build must
> > always be forced.
> >     
> > Signed-off-by: Juergen Beisert <jbe@pengutronix.de>
> > ---
> > diff --git a/rules/kernel.make b/rules/kernel.make
> > index 8301b83..f4b3990 100644
> > --- a/rules/kernel.make
> > +++ b/rules/kernel.make
> > @@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ KERNEL_CONFIG		:= $(call remove_quotes, $(PTXDIST_PLATFORMCONFIGDIR)/$(PTXCONF_K
> >  KERNEL_LICENSE		:= GPLv2
> >  KERNEL_URL		:= $(call kernel-url, KERNEL)
> >  KERNEL_SOURCE		:= $(SRCDIR)/$(KERNEL).$(KERNEL_SUFFIX)
> > +KERNEL_DEVPKG		:= NO
> >  
> >  # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >  # Prepare
> 
> The idea of the devpkg mechanism is to build everything beforehand. A
> standard usecase is that one team prepares a system and another one does
> already care about the application. So it would be helpful to have also
> the kernel pre-built.
> 
> Can you elaborate what kind of issue you have seen?

The is no "make install" that installs everything that may be needed later.
*.dts* files and Headers to create dtbs, the correct kernel image etc.

mol

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