On Thursday, December 15, 2016 4:22:41 AM CET Ralf Baechle wrote: > > Some configurations, in particular new cores or architecture variants > may require vendor tool- chains or patches until support makes it upstream. > I wonder if for the benefit of automated build testing we should tag > kernel configurations with a special CONFIG_ symbol to indicate they need > non-standard tools? That would allow build testing to detect and > possibly skip such configuration. I think that this ties in with a discussion we recently had about moving toolchain feature detection from Makefiles into Kconfig, which can then probably handle this better. We just need to find someone who can hack this up into Kconfig. Arnd
