Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Jul 2008 04:31:36 +0200 | From | Mikael Pettersson <> | Subject | Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin" |
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Alan Cox writes: > > The only valid assumption here is to assume that the user is /unaware/ > > of these new steps they must take in order to continue to have a working > > system. > > To a large extent not the user but their distro - consider "make install" > --
Last time I checked only x86 had 'make install'. I regularly build natively on ppc(32|64) and sparc64, and none of them implement 'make install' AFAIK. And on ARM I move the kernels over to a tftp server for network boots, again w/o 'make install'.
Not that 'make install' is difficult. All it does it hand over to /sbin/installkernel or something like that.
In the context of .config changes, 'make oldconfig' with 'select the default' must IMO result in a working kernel similar to the previous one. Anything else is madness or arrogance.
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