On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 10:03:11PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 02:35:52 -0500, 
> "Eric S. Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >The right answer looks like this:
> >private VMLINUX_X86 VMLINUZ_X86 BZIMAGE_X86 ZIMAGE_X86
> >choices kernel_format_x86 # The format that the kernel is to be compiled in
> >         VMLINUX_X86 VMLINUZ_X86 BZIMAGE_X86 ZIMAGE_X86 default BZIMAGE_X86
> >private VMLINUX_IA64 VMLINUZ_IA64
> >choices kernel_format_ia64 # The format that the kernel is to be compiled in
> >         VMLINUX_IA64 VMLINUZ_IA64 default VMLINUZ_IA64
> >derive VMLINUX from VMLINUX_X86 or VMLINUX_IA64
> >derive VMLINUZ from VMLINUZ_Z86 or VMLINUZ_IA64
> >derive BZIMAGE from BZIMAGE_X86
> >derive ZIMAGE  from ZIMAGE_X86
> 
> I can live with that - just.  The help text for each of the build
> formats must be duplicated, even though VMLINUZ_X86 is _identical_ to
> VMLINUZ_IA64.  People who read the rules might think that VMLINUZ has
> different formats on the two architectures.  I see lots of comments in
> my coding future ...

But that's rather nice when BZIMAGE_M68K means a bzip2'ed file and
BZIMAGE_X86 means a big zImage. :)

-- 
Tom Rini (TR1265)
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/

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