[llvmlinux] RFC: Unique handling of kernel-config files and working checkpoints

Sedat Dilek sedat.dilek at gmail.com
Tue Jul 16 10:24:53 UTC 2013


On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Jan-Simon Möller <dl9pf at gmx.de> wrote:
[...]
> Add the possibility to use (llvm/clang/kernel) patches from a checkpoint
> instead of the default directory. That gives us a "real" checkpoint.
>
> e.g.
> ls target/x86/checkpoints/<name>/:
>
>         ./llvmlinux.cfg         # make config output
>         ./patches/kernel        #(combined patches for this target's kernel at ref
>                                            $foo)
>         ./patches/llvm          #(needed for llvm at rev $foo)
>         ./patches/clang         #(needed for clang at rev $foo)
>         ./kernel.config         # matching kernel .config
>

I like your idea of a "real checkpoint" and collect all relevant

1. configs: llvmlinux and Linux-kernel
2. patches: toolchain (llvm and clang separately) and Linux-kernel

at one single place.

- Sedat -


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