Hi,
the phony bzImage target in the ppc Makefiles is not helping anything,
rather it just changes the confusion from `why doesn't make bzImage
work?' to `where is my bzImage?'
lets not hide users ignorance lets teach them instead. the attached
patch replaces the phony bzImage target with a error explaining that
bzImage is x86 only and to use zImage instead.
please apply.
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Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 11:42:14PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
the phony bzImage target in the ppc Makefiles is not helping anything,
rather it just changes the confusion from `why doesn't make bzImage
work?' to `where is my bzImage?'
lets not hide users ignorance lets teach them instead. the attached
patch replaces the phony bzImage target with a error explaining that
bzImage is x86 only and to use zImage instead.
please apply.
I agree that it's a stupid thing to do (and, btw, 'bzImage' on m68k is,
or was anyhow, a bzip2 image adding to the fun) but this came in,
intentionally, from Paul exactly because the system said 'Now use make
bzImage'. Maybe this can die in 2.5, but I haven't paid attention in
some time.
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Tom Rini
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
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At 2:01 PM -0500 5/15/03, Tom Rini wrote:
(and, btw, 'bzImage' on m68k is,
or was anyhow, a bzip2 image adding to the fun)
Yeah, that would be my fault. :)
I wrote that in before I had access to an x86 linux machine, so I was not
aware that "bzImage" meant "work around stupid bios/realmode limitations"
and not "use bz2 compression".
Speaking of which, is it even possible these days to build a kernel small
enough for (non-b) zImage on x86? I think it's been a while since I've even
made one that can fit on a floppy.
Cheers - Tony 'Nicoya' Mantler :)
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Tony "Nicoya" Mantler - Renaissance Nerd Extraordinaire - nicoya@apia.dhs.org
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada -- http://nicoya.feline.pp.se/
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