Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jun 2004 23:07:39 +0200 | | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/5] kbuild: default kernel image |
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On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 09:59:52AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 09:38:07AM +0100, Russell King wrote: > > AFAIAC, if the boot loader does not support the standard Image or > > zImage format, both of which are the fully documented "official" > > ARM kernel formats, it is up to the boot loader to provide whatever > > scripts or programs are needed to manipulate the output of the kernel > > build to whatever the boot loader wants. > > And we have /sbin/installkernel and ~/bin/installkernel as defined hooks > for that.
installkernel is a hack to install a kernel for current machine mainly. Not what I consider a good generic solution.
> In fact I'd love to reduce what the kernel builds to just > vmlinux and vmlinux.gz, but I guess all those lilo user will kill me ;-) I do not see the point in this. Better make life easier - but in a nice and structured way. Take a look at arch/ppc/boot/simple to see that the bootloader step is not trivial.. The concept with a clean and lean kernel that cannot be used in real-life without doing lot's of stuff is a dead end.
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