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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] kbuild: use INSTALLKERNEL to select customized	installkernel
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Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:22:43 -0700
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Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> 
> That's a good thing in some ways and a bad thing in others.  Having
> it guarantee to fail if you try installing an ARM kernel onto an
> x86 machine is definitely a good thing.  That said, it's not something
> I've ever accidentally done.
> 

I guess we could have it error out if you are building a non-native
architecture but don't set CROSS_COMPILE.  Either that or we could
default $INSTALLKERNEL to $(CROSS_COMPILE)installkernel, which would be
backwards compatible.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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