Re: Covering DT build in -next merge

[Palmer Dabbelt]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2023 13:16:21 PDT (-0700), broonie@xxxxxxxxxx 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