From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Subject: Re: Merge dtc
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 19:49:07 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071204194907.5c88f347@zod.rchland.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1196816078.13978.411.camel@pmac.infradead.org>
On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:54:38 +0000
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 22:33 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > Make vmlinux the default target instead of zImage would seem like a
> > better answer. I'm surprised that it isn't like that already, in fact --
> > and I'm only inferring that it isn't from your message. I always thought
> > that if I typed 'make' I got the vmlinux and not a zImage.
>
> Ooh, no -- I don't. I get an error, and I never even noticed...
>
> WRAP arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.chrp
> WRAP arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.pmac
> WRAP arch/powerpc/boot/cuImage.52xx
> /pmac/git/libertas-2.6/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper: line 257: mkimage: command not found
> make[1]: *** [arch/powerpc/boot/cuImage.52xx] Error 127
>
>
> I'd be perfectly happy with 'make vmlinux then' as a response to anyone
> who complains. And in fact since it'll correctly make the vmlinux and
> _then_ fail to create the zImage, I would have thought that anyone with
> even a modicum of common sense will _notice_ that, and start using
> 'make vmlinux' all by themselves without prompting.
People build what the default is. You don't boot a vmlinux, you boot a
zImage (in most cases).
(Nevermind the fact that for the 'build patch on all arches' part Paul
mentioned earlier it doesn't really matter since they probably aren't
going to actually boot it anyway.)
josh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-05 1:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-16 5:02 Merge dtc David Gibson
2007-10-16 5:08 ` Kumar Gala
2007-10-16 5:18 ` David Gibson
2007-10-16 5:39 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-10-16 5:50 ` Kumar Gala
2007-10-16 6:01 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-16 6:23 ` Kumar Gala
2007-10-16 10:53 ` Josh Boyer
2007-10-17 19:59 ` Timur Tabi
2007-10-17 20:12 ` Josh Boyer
2007-10-17 20:31 ` Grant Likely
2007-10-17 21:42 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-10-17 21:51 ` Jon Loeliger
2007-10-16 6:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-16 6:24 ` Kumar Gala
2007-10-16 13:17 ` Grant Likely
2007-10-16 13:41 ` Kumar Gala
2007-10-17 5:22 ` David Gibson
2007-10-17 13:15 ` Grant Likely
2007-10-17 16:22 ` Stephen Neuendorffer
2007-12-04 1:59 ` David Woodhouse
2007-12-04 3:10 ` David Gibson
2007-12-04 17:22 ` David Woodhouse
2007-12-04 13:25 ` Jon Loeliger
2007-12-04 15:26 ` Josh Boyer
2007-12-04 16:04 ` Kumar Gala
2007-12-04 22:12 ` David Gibson
2007-12-04 16:08 ` Scott Wood
2007-12-04 22:21 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-12-04 22:33 ` David Woodhouse
2007-12-05 0:54 ` David Woodhouse
2007-12-05 1:49 ` Josh Boyer [this message]
2007-12-05 1:09 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-12-04 22:34 ` Josh Boyer
2007-12-05 2:22 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-12-05 2:26 ` Josh Boyer
2007-12-05 4:00 ` Josh Boyer
2007-12-05 4:37 ` Olof Johansson
2007-10-18 17:49 Milton Miller
2007-10-18 19:59 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-19 1:45 ` David Gibson
2007-10-19 5:56 ` Milton Miller
2007-10-19 6:55 ` David Gibson
2007-10-19 7:07 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-19 7:10 ` David Gibson
2007-10-19 18:42 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-31 2:45 ` David Gibson
2007-11-08 13:59 ` Jon Loeliger
2007-10-19 1:30 ` David Gibson
2007-10-19 5:34 ` Milton Miller
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