Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265373AbUFOI74 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jun 2004 04:59:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265377AbUFOI74 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jun 2004 04:59:56 -0400 Received: from [213.146.154.40] ([213.146.154.40]:58855 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265373AbUFOI7z (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jun 2004 04:59:55 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 09:59:52 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] kbuild: default kernel image Message-ID: <20040615085952.GA19197@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds References: <20040614204029.GA15243@mars.ravnborg.org> <20040614204405.GB15243@mars.ravnborg.org> <20040614220549.L14403@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20040615044020.GC16664@mars.ravnborg.org> <20040615093807.A1164@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040615093807.A1164@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 920 Lines: 16 On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 09:38:07AM +0100, Russell King wrote: > AFAIAC, if the boot loader does not support the standard Image or > zImage format, both of which are the fully documented "official" > ARM kernel formats, it is up to the boot loader to provide whatever > scripts or programs are needed to manipulate the output of the kernel > build to whatever the boot loader wants. And we have /sbin/installkernel and ~/bin/installkernel as defined hooks for that. No need to support everything and a kitchensink in the kernel build process. In fact I'd love to reduce what the kernel builds to just vmlinux and vmlinux.gz, but I guess all those lilo user will kill me ;-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/