From: Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: [PATCH] educate users about x86 specific kludges instead of hiding thier ignorance
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 23:42:14 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030515074214.GA787@plato.local.lan> (raw)
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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.
--
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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--- linux/arch/ppc/Makefile.orig Wed May 14 23:33:00 2003
+++ linux/arch/ppc/Makefile Wed May 14 23:35:24 2003
@@ -98,7 +98,8 @@
BOOT_TARGETS = zImage zImage.initrd znetboot znetboot.initrd
# All the instructions talk about "make bzImage".
-bzImage: zImage
+bzImage:
+ $(error bzImage is an x86 specific hack to work around broken design. Try make zImage)
$(BOOT_TARGETS): $(CHECKS) vmlinux
@$(MAKEBOOT) $@
next reply other threads:[~2003-05-15 7:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-15 7:42 Ethan Benson [this message]
2003-05-15 19:01 ` [PATCH] educate users about x86 specific kludges instead of hiding thier ignorance Tom Rini
2003-05-15 19:11 ` Tony 'Nicoya' Mantler
2003-05-15 20:22 ` linas
2003-05-16 3:10 ` Trevor Woerner
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