Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Jan 2002 08:30:59 -0700 | From | Tom Rini <> | Subject | Re: Moving zlib so that others may use it |
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On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 04:37:00AM -0500, Zygo Blaxell wrote: > In article <3C3D22F8.1080201@acm.org>, Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> wrote: > >Keith Owens wrote: > > > >>On Wed, 09 Jan 2002 22:23:31 -0600, > >>Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> wrote: > >>>Keith Owens wrote: > [...] > >Building zlib as a > >>module guarantees that you cannot use it in a boot loader, forcing you > >>to maintain multiple versions of zlib.c. If you are going to use one > >>version of zlib then you should try to handle bootloaders as well. > [...] > >I don't know about the bootloaders. I'm not sure you can make the > >requirement > >to have them compiled the same as the kernel, since they may have different > >compilation requirements in the boot loader. > > Ummm, you can't use an in-kernel anything in a bootloader. How do you > uncompress an in-kernel zlib.o without an out-of-kernel zlib.o lying > around somewhere?
Well, when your 'bootloader' is in arch/$(ARCH)/boot, you can rather easily. I think there's a few archs which grab lib/lib.a right now.
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