On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 7:38 AM Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi > > On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 8:26 PM Rob Herring <robh+dt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 2:07 PM Frank Rowand <frowand.list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > + Rob > > > > > > and my response inline below. > > > > > > On 10/09/2019 05:20, marcandre.lureau@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > From: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > This series adds support for meson build system. The main reason for > > > > this, beside build-sys modernization, is to enable subproject() > > > > support in qemu. > > > > > > > > Maintaining several build systems is a pain, so eventually it would be > > > > nice to deprecate Makefile build-sys, as I can imagine this may take a > > > > > > Removing the Makefile method would be problematic for the Linux kernel > > > source tree, where we import dtc from the upstream project and build > > > it as part of the kernel build. > > > > That was my first thought too. However, we do our own kbuild > > makefiles, so we're not affected there. We do copy over Makefile.dtc, > > and probably could use it, but don't currently. > > If there is no such plan, now that qemu switched to meson, can we > reconsider the switch of dtc? What's to reconsider? The conclusion here is no issue for the kernel. Update this year old patchset and resubmit. Rob
