On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 12:49:18PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote: > I want one standard name for "vmlinux compressed with gzip" - vmlinuz. > Part of the problem with kbuild 2.4 is each arch did their own thing, I > am trying to standardize. It helps documentation if nothing else.
After thinking about this abit more, I think it sounds like kbuild-2.5 is trying to make all of the arches do the same thing, and that will be a bit of a problem. Right now each of the arches has a few commonalities. There's a 'zImage' target, and almost everyone makes some sort of gzip'ed vmlinux. But that's about it. On PPC the 'zImage' target will produce at most 5 distinct zImages at once. We also have 4 different ways of writing out the program that actually sets up and runs Linux, and about a dozen different formats for the kernel. So aside from having one place that asks 'What do you want to build for your kernel' (which on PPC could actually be a set of bool's so we could build a zImage.srec and zImage.elf and zImage.bin (ELF header removed)) and not having to have arch-dependant help texts (maybe), I'm not sure what's gained. -- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/ _______________________________________________ kbuild-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kbuild-devel
