Tom Rini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 12:16:45PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
>  
> > I think I may have a better idea.  Let the default be a ? : name-valued
> > expression.  So your format choice could look something like this:
> > 
> > choices kernel_format
> >     VMLINUX VMLINUZ IMAGE ZIMAGE BZIMAGE
> >     default ((X86 or IA64 or SPARC) ? VMLINUZ : BZIMAGE)
> 
> I don't know....  What about other defaults?  If 'vmlinuz' == 'zImage',
> this might be OK, otherwise we'd need something like:
> choices kernel_format
>       VMLINUX VMLINUZ IMAGE ZIMAGE BZIMAGE ZIMAGE.INITRD
>       default ((X86 or IA64 or SPARC) ? VMLINUZ : (PPC) ? ZIMAGE : BZIMAGE)
> unless PPC suppress ZIMAGE.INITRD
> 
> If I'm reading that right (and I don't know, wouldn't it be
> default ((IA64 or SPARC) ? VMLINUZ : BZIMAGE), ia64/sparc do vmlinuz,
> else bzImage).

I'm not understanding your objection.  Is it to the specific rule above,
or the proposed mechanism?
-- 
                <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>

"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a
troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left
to irresponsible action."
        -- George Washington, in a speech of January 7, 1790

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