On Sat, 07 Sep 2024 10:32:20 +0100, "Daniel Gomez (Samsung)" <d+samsung@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 7, 2024 at 10:33 AM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Sep 6, 2024 at 8:01 PM Daniel Gomez via B4 Relay > > <devnull+da.gomez.samsung.com@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > From: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > Add documentation under kbuild/llvm to inform about the experimental > > > support for building the Linux kernel in macOS hosts environments. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > Instead, you can add this instruction to: > > > > https://github.com/bee-headers/homebrew-bee-headers/blob/main/README.md > > Sure, that can be done as well. But the effort here is to have this > integrated. So, I think documentation should be in-tree. I think this ship sailed the moment you ended-up with an external dependency. Having looked at this series (and in particular patch #4 which falls under my remit), I can't help but think that the whole thing should simply live as a wrapper around the pristine build system instead of hacking things inside of it. You already pull external dependencies (the include files). Just add a script that sets things up (environment variables that already exist) and calls 'make' in the kernel tree. I also dislike that this is forcing "native" developers to cater for an operating system they are unlikely to have access to. If I break this hack tomorrow by adding a new dependency that MacOS doesn't provide, how do I fix it? Should I drop my changes on the floor? As an alternative, and since you already have to create a special file-system to contain your kernel tree, you may as well run Linux in a VM, which I am told works pretty well (QEMU supports HVF, and there are plenty of corporate-friendly alternatives). This would solve your problem once and for all. Please don't take the above the wrong way. I'm sympathetic to what you are trying to do. But this is IMO going in the wrong direction. Thanks, M. -- Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
