Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC 02/29] build: trim down Linux bits

[Doug Goldstein <cardoe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/6/15 7:42 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 06.10.15 at 00:03, <cardoe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Changes like this should be explained:
> 
>> Signed-off-by: Doug Goldstein <cardoe@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  xen/scripts/basic/.gitignore | 1 -
>>  xen/scripts/basic/Makefile   | 1 -
>>  2 files changed, 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/xen/scripts/basic/.gitignore b/xen/scripts/basic/.gitignore
>> index 9528ec9..a776371 100644
>> --- a/xen/scripts/basic/.gitignore
>> +++ b/xen/scripts/basic/.gitignore
>> @@ -1,2 +1 @@
>>  fixdep
>> -bin2c
>> diff --git a/xen/scripts/basic/Makefile b/xen/scripts/basic/Makefile
>> index ec10d93..4fcef87 100644
>> --- a/xen/scripts/basic/Makefile
>> +++ b/xen/scripts/basic/Makefile
>> @@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
>>  # fixdep:    Used to generate dependency information during build process
>>  
>>  hostprogs-y := fixdep
>> -hostprogs-$(CONFIG_BUILD_BIN2C)     += bin2c
> 
> Why does Linux need this but we don't?
> 
> Jan
> 

Its for building firmware into the kernel. It converts a blob/binary to
a C-style header which can be included into the code. One of the many
things in their scripts directory that we won't need for Kconfig support.

-- 
Doug Goldstein

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