Does any architecture have local changes to the scripts directory?
This includes scripts/mkdep.c, the config code etc. Or to the top
level Makefile and Rules.make? I need to know about anything that
affects the overall kernel build and is not in the base kernel.
On an somewhat-related subject, here are a couple of utility scripts that
make it easier to use drop-in trees with various stock kernels. These are
used by linux-mips, linuxconsole (Ruby), and linuxsh developers, so it's
assumed they'd be useful to anyone else who needs to build those kernels.
Ok for inclusion into scripts/ ?
M. R.
* Keith Owens <[email protected]> on Thu, Dec 13, 2001:
> Does any architecture have local changes to the scripts directory?
> This includes scripts/mkdep.c, the config code etc. Or to the top
> level Makefile and Rules.make? I need to know about anything that
> affects the overall kernel build and is not in the base kernel.
>
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 23:59:43 -0600,
"M. R. Brown" <[email protected]> wrote:
>On an somewhat-related subject, here are a couple of utility scripts that
>make it easier to use drop-in trees with various stock kernels. These are
>used by linux-mips, linuxconsole (Ruby), and linuxsh developers, so it's
>assumed they'd be useful to anyone else who needs to build those kernels.
This facility and more is built into kbuild 2.5, which is going into
2.5 soon. I don't see the point in adding this to 2.4 now, especially
since kbuild 2.5 can also run on 2.4 kernels.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kbuild
* Keith Owens <[email protected]> on Thu, Dec 13, 2001:
> On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 23:59:43 -0600,
> "M. R. Brown" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >On an somewhat-related subject, here are a couple of utility scripts that
> >make it easier to use drop-in trees with various stock kernels. These are
> >used by linux-mips, linuxconsole (Ruby), and linuxsh developers, so it's
> >assumed they'd be useful to anyone else who needs to build those kernels.
>
> This facility and more is built into kbuild 2.5, which is going into
> 2.5 soon. I don't see the point in adding this to 2.4 now, especially
> since kbuild 2.5 can also run on 2.4 kernels.
>
True, but IMO the majority of people aren't using kbuild with 2.4 yet.
Plus the fact that kbuild isn't included in 2.4 - I'm thinking of the
newbie/more-than-casual user who just wants to a) grab vanilla, b) run the
provided treelink scripts to drop in their second kernel. Patching the
kernel with kbuild 2.5 would be a bit too intrusive for this.
Marcelo, can these scripts go into 2.4?
M. R.