On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 10:51:55AM +1100, Keith Owens wrote: > On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 11:20:11 -0700, > Tom Rini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 10:03:11PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote: > >> 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. :) > > The same name meaning two different formats is a design error. User > says "I have a bzImage file", does that mean they have the correct > format for the architecture (good) or they copied the bzImage file from > i386 to m68k (bad) and now they wonder why it will not boot?
The problem is nothing is defined anywhere. :) As it is, lots of newbies think 'bzImage' is a bzip2'ed zImage of sorts. -- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/ _______________________________________________ kbuild-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kbuild-devel
