linux-kernel - Re: Covering DT build in -next merge

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Message-ID: <mhng-9d3c8241-8749-4b5e-bb01-64cf5e2d0bb8@palmer-ri-x1c9a>
Date:   Tue, 17 Oct 2023 13:20:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:   Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>
To:     broonie@...nel.org, Conor Dooley <conor@...nel.org>
CC:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        soc@...nel.org
Subject:     Re: Covering DT build in -next merge

On Tue, 17 Oct 2023 13:16:21 PDT (-0700), broonie@...nel.org wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
>
> I was wondering if it might be possible to add DTB builds for relevant
> architecutres to the -next merge checks (everything except x86 AFAIK)?
> Some current experience suggested to me that it might be helpful for
> bisecting problems found in testing, breakage building the DTBs causes
> hassle since where they're used in tree DTs are required to boot the
> kernel.
>
> At least for arm and arm64 the DT build is quick enough to be negligable
> in the context of building the kernel itself so hopefully it shouldn't
> add too much load to do this - it's just adding a 'make dtbs' (with
> appropriate cross build options) to the kernel build.

Pretty sure we're in the same shape for RISC-V these days.  +Conor, who 
would know for sure (as he made it work).

>
> Thanks,
> Mark