[kbuild-devel] kbuild status
Hi kbuild team, What is the status of kbuild with respect to getting into the kernel proper ? Is it going to get into the linus kernel source tree ?? The reason I ask is that I require a kernel build system for the 2.4 kernel on a embedded PowerPC architecture. It seems that only the i386 is being actively maintained. I did do some work in porting the kbuild-2.5-1.12 to 2.4.18-pre8 some time ago. It worked but did not work well with my Configuration Management System (Aegis). Aparently kbuild-2.5-3.0 onwards should work with Aegis but I don't really have to time to report everything from scratch again. I can probably generate patches for the work I've done for the embedded boards if anyone is interested ? Unfortunately these patches would not be against the vanilla kernel sources, but against the linuxppc kernel tree (linuxppc_2_4_devel to be procise). So does anyone know if kbuild-2.5 is likely to become mainstream in the near future ? If so, is it going to be backported to 2.4 for all architectures ? If not, is there anything in the vanilla kernel that will build from a a readonly repository ? I hope kbuild-2.5 does have a future because so much hard work has gone into it. It would be a shame to see all the effort wasted. Many thanks, Brendan Simon. --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ kbuild-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kbuild-devel
Re: [kbuild-devel] kbuild status
[Brendan J Simon] What is the status of kbuild with respect to getting into the kernel proper ? Is it going to get into the linus kernel source tree ?? At this point it doesn't seem likely. Of the rich feature set Keith produced, Kai Germaschewski has managed to replicate the most compelling features (though by no means all!) by incrementally tweaking the Rules.make-based system, so Linus doesn't seem to see the urgency of replacing the whole thing. I hope kbuild-2.5 does have a future because so much hard work has gone into it. It would be a shame to see all the effort wasted. Me too, but Linus has never made any secret of the fact that he doesn't really care much about effort wasted, so long as he gets a kernel he is happy with. Call it what you will, we all know that's how this game is played Peter --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ kbuild-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kbuild-devel
Re: [kbuild-devel] kbuild status
Peter Samuelson wrote: [Brendan J Simon] What is the status of kbuild with respect to getting into the kernel proper ? Is it going to get into the linus kernel source tree ?? At this point it doesn't seem likely. Of the rich feature set Keith produced, Kai Germaschewski has managed to replicate the most compelling features (though by no means all!) by incrementally tweaking the Rules.make-based system, so Linus doesn't seem to see the urgency of replacing the whole thing. Is there a site that documents the changes the Kai has made or is making ? I'm mainly interested in building in seperate directories, building from readonly src directories and having a single makefile so that a complete dependency graph is generated. I hope kbuild-2.5 does have a future because so much hard work has gone into it. It would be a shame to see all the effort wasted. Me too, but Linus has never made any secret of the fact that he doesn't really care much about effort wasted, so long as he gets a kernel he is happy with. Call it what you will, we all know that's how this game is played Doesn't sound promising. I guess that's why Keith has been quiet on this list in recent times. It sounds like politics has killed another great project. Hopefully Kai can do a good job of getting some of great kbuild work into the kernel (in some form). Cheers, Brendan Simon. --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ kbuild-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kbuild-devel
