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

[Doug Goldstein <cardoe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/6/15 11:15 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-10-06 at 11:02 -0500, Doug Goldstein wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> ISTR there was a fork of Kconfig maintained for easy inclusion into other
> projects. I can't find it though, the closest I got was 
> https://github.com/lacombar/kconfig/ which is clearly not the answer (not
> touched for 5yrs).
> 
> Ian.
> 

I think this is the project?

http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/projects/kconfig-frontends

For some reason I couldn't find it when I started out on this originally
and planned on replacing the first few patches with that. But looking at
it now, it appears abandoned.

-- 
Doug Goldstein

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