[PATCH v3 3/3] RFC: CI: Skip building dtc for world builds

[Simon Glass]

Hi Tom,

On Thu, 10 Oct 2024 at 13:01, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2024 at 12:50:11PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> > Hi Tom,
> >
> > On Thu, 15 Aug 2024 at 13:58, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > This is quite a significant waste of time in the world builds as dtc is
> > > built separately for each board. Skip this to speed up the builds.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately the newer dtc produces a lot of warnings, which causes CI
> > > to fail. I am not sure what we can do about this.
> >
> > What do you think about this one?
> >
> > We could install an older dtc in the container, perhaps?
>
> Is backporting applying whatever dtc flags we need to ignore problems
> that Linux isn't enforcing so difficult? That would then tell us just
> how much work it is / isn't to deal with the rest of the dts files (or
> poke maintainers to switch to OF_UPSTREAM where the issues are likely
> fixed).

That could work. Shall I give it a try and then we apply this patch if
I figure it out?

Regards,
Simon