Now on ia32, there are also a lot of bootloaders, currently 'make install' 
can update lilo and grub, on ppc desktop and enterprise computing, we 
mainly use yaboot as the bootloader, I think ppc 'make install' can at 
least support yaboot.

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Regards,

MCP Test, Linux Technology Center, China Systems & Technology Lab
China Development Labs, Beijing      Email: huangjq@cn.ibm.com



Hollis Blanchard [off-list ref] 
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On Mar 26, 2006, at 7:56 PM, Brent Cook wrote:

On Sunday 26 March 2006 19:42, Jin Qi Huang wrote:

quoted

I also think the 'make install' is very useful, now on ia32, the 'make
install' provided by the latest kernel linux-2.6.16 not only create
initrd, copy vmlinuz and System.map to /boot directory, but also 
update
grub, ppc32 does not provide this useful feature, maybe it is a pity!

The feature sounds like a good idea to me, even if it's just the 
copying files part. Do any PPC distros provide a working installkernel 
script?

Maybe narrow it to define 'make install' for new world/old world 
Macintoshes,
or IBM machines? I can't see a generic make install being useful for 
the
wider range of platforms that fall under ppc.

'make install' appears to me to be very platform dependent. Sure, on 
x86, you
can reasonably assume that the majority of systems have the kernel on 
a disk
under /boot and the bootloader is grub or lilo. I have 5 ppc machines
currently, and no two use the same bootloader or kernel image. I've 
seen
u-boot, yaboot, quik, powerboot (Motorola/Force), xmon (XES) and more, 
and
they all required different post-processing to the kernel image to 
boot. For
most of these, there is no way to programmatically guess where a 
particular
kernel image should go to work with the boot loader.

If you have an unusual platform, don't run make install and you have 
lost nothing... :)

-Hollis

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