Hi Masahiro, Thanks for these - I've applied patches 1-3, 5 & 6 to mips-next for 4.19. On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 07:47:44AM -0700, Masahiro Yamada wrote: > vmlinux.*.its does not directly depend on $(VMLINUX) but > vmlinux.bin.* This isn't really true - to generate the .its we actually do depend on the ELF, which we read the entry address from (entry-y in arch/mips/Makefile, provided to arch/mips/boot/Makefile as VMLINUX_ENTRY_ADDRESS). In practice $(VMLINUX) is built before this makefile is ever invoked anyway, but the dependency is there. We don't need the vmlinux.bin.* file until we generate the .itb, so it should be fine for the .its & .bin steps to be executed in parallel which this patch would prevent. Thanks, Paul