From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: linux arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>,
Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] kbuild: document KBUILD_LDS, KBUILD_VMLINUX_INIT and KBUILD_VMLINUX_MAIN
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:45:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120424194518.GD2311@merkur.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120424194148.GA2216@merkur.ravnborg.org>
From 8e5298ec2fd86f90ce55503b02ccb67c30677611 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:06:25 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] kbuild: document KBUILD_LDS, KBUILD_VMLINUX_INIT and
KBUILD_VMLINUX_MAIN
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
---
Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt | 15 +++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
index 68e32bb..47038a2 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
@@ -214,3 +214,18 @@ KBUILD_BUILD_USER, KBUILD_BUILD_HOST
These two variables allow to override the user@host string displayed during
boot and in /proc/version. The default value is the output of the commands
whoami and host, respectively.
+
+KBUILD_LDS
+--------------------------------------------------
+The linker script with full path. Assigned by the top-level Makefile.
+
+KBUILD_VMLINUX_INIT
+--------------------------------------------------
+All objects files for the init (first) part of vmlinux.
+Files specified with KBUILD_VMLINUX_INIT are linked first.
+
+KBUILD_VMLINUX_MAIN
+--------------------------------------------------
+All objects files for the main part of vmlinux.
+KBUILD_VMLINUX_INIT and KBUILD_VMLINUX_MAIN together specify
+all the object files used to link vmlinux.
--
1.7.10
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-24 19:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-24 19:41 [PATCH 0/4] kbuild: Move vmlinux link out of top-level Makefile Sam Ravnborg
2012-04-24 19:41 ` Sam Ravnborg
2012-04-24 19:42 ` [PATCH 1/4] kbuild: drop unused KBUILD_VMLINUX_OBJS from " Sam Ravnborg
2012-04-24 19:43 ` [PATCH 2/4] kbuild: refactor final link of sparc32 Sam Ravnborg
2012-04-24 19:44 ` [PATCH 3/4] kbuild: link of vmlinux moved to a script Sam Ravnborg
2012-04-25 14:24 ` Nick Bowler
2012-04-25 16:30 ` Sam Ravnborg
2012-04-24 19:45 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2012-04-25 10:01 ` [PATCH 0/4] kbuild: Move vmlinux link out of top-level Makefile Andi Kleen
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