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Date:   Wed, 7 Apr 2021 09:14:36 +0100
From:   Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/20] kbuild: unify the install.sh script usage
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On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 10:07:29AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 09:02:29AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux admin wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 09:46:18AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 09:18:11AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > > Hi Greg,
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks for your series!
> > > > 
> > > > On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 7:34 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > > > <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > > > > Almost every architecture has copied the "install.sh" script that
> > > > > originally came with i386, and modified it in very tiny ways.  This
> > > > > patch series unifies all of these scripts into one single script to
> > > > > allow people to understand how to correctly install a kernel, and fixes
> > > > > up some issues regarding trying to install a kernel to a path with
> > > > > spaces in it.
> > > > >
> > > > > Note that not all architectures actually seem to have any type of way to
> > > > > install a kernel, they must rely on external scripts or tools which
> > > > > feels odd as everything should be included here in the main repository.
> > > > > I'll work on trying to figure out the missing architecture issues
> > > > > afterward.
> > > > 
> > > > I'll bite ;-)
> > > > 
> > > > Does anyone actually use these scripts (outside of x86)?
> > 
> > Yes, every time I build a kernel. My kernel build system involves
> > typing "kbuild <flags> <dirname> <machines...>" and the kernel gets
> > built in ../build/<dirname>. When the build completes, it gets
> > installed into ~/systems/<dirname>, tar'd up, and copied to the
> > destination machines, unpacked, installed as appropriate, and
> > the machine rebooted if requested.
> > 
> > The installation step is done via the ~/bin/installkernel script.
> 
> So you don't use install.sh at all except to invoke your local script.

It depends where the kernel is being built; it has been used in the
past (one will notice that the arm32 version is not a direct copy of
the x86 version, and never was - it was modified from day 1.) It's
placement and naming of the files in /boot is still used today, which
is slightly different from the x86 version.

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