On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 12:49:18PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote: > On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 17:08:18 -0500, > Ghozlane Toumi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >- the most used kernel format in the alpha world is the vmlinux.gz rather > >than vmlinuz. is "vmlinuz" an standard for kbuild2.5, or should i keep the > >old vmlinuz.gz ? > > 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.
And does this mean everyone will now have a 'vmlinuxz' file instead of a vmlinux.gz too? I'm not sure how this will help documentation, except for maybe simpilify the 'help' for a target. > BTW, I have been tweaking the top level Makefile.in and adding some new > embedded targets from David Woodhouse, it now looks like this: > > # List all standard kernel formats and locations for all architectures. [snip] > ifsel(CONFIG_VMLINUZ) > KERNELFULLNAME := vmlinuz > endif This reminds me, are we going to have global rules for 'vmlinuz' too? > ifsel(CONFIG_ZIMAGE) > KERNELFULLNAME := arch/$(ARCH)/boot/zImage > endif What if your 'zImage' target has multiple outputs? Or what if you don't want to have your final image in arch/$(ARCH)/boot/ ? > ifsel(CONFIG_VMLINUX_SREC) > KERNELFULLNAME := vmlinux.srec > endif Ack, is someone going to include the zsrec (I assume srec == motorola S-record deal..) utility in the kernel too now? And will it be in a 'common' place for all of the arches that could use it? > ifsel(CONFIG_VMLINUX_BIN) > KERNELFULLNAME := vmlinux.bin > endif And what's the 'vmlinux.bin' file? objcopy -O binary or ? -- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/ _______________________________________________ kbuild-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kbuild-devel
