* [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Changbin Du <[email protected]>
>
> The build message for fdimage/isoimage are pretty unstructured. The raw
> shell command blocks are printed. We can improve them as regular build
> system messages. Besides, writing commands in a shell script is much more
> easy than in a Makefile.
>
> See Ingo's suggestion here https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/10/31/124.
>
> This patch factors out the commands used for fdimage/isoimage generation
> from arch/x86/boot/Makefile to a new script arch/x86/boot/genimage.sh.
> Then it adds the new kbuild command 'genimage' which invokes the new script.
> All fdimages/isoimage files are now generated by a call to 'genimage' with
> different parameters.
>
> Now 'make isoimage' becomes:
> ...
> Kernel: arch/x86/boot/bzImage is ready (#30)
> GENIMAGE arch/x86/boot/image.iso
> Size of boot image is 4 sectors -> No emulation
> 15.37% done, estimate finish Sun Nov 5 23:36:57 2017
> 30.68% done, estimate finish Sun Nov 5 23:36:57 2017
> 46.04% done, estimate finish Sun Nov 5 23:36:57 2017
> 61.35% done, estimate finish Sun Nov 5 23:36:57 2017
> 76.69% done, estimate finish Sun Nov 5 23:36:57 2017
> 92.00% done, estimate finish Sun Nov 5 23:36:57 2017
> Total translation table size: 2048
> Total rockridge attributes bytes: 659
> Total directory bytes: 0
> Path table size(bytes): 10
> Max brk space used 0
> 32608 extents written (63 MB)
> Kernel: arch/x86/boot/image.iso is ready
Could we please also do another patch, to make it emit only this by default:
> GENIMAGE arch/x86/boot/image.iso
None of the other messages really matter to the user.
Maybe emit them when building with V=1 - but none of that info is really
interesting IMHO.
Thanks,
Ingo
