From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 22:58:32 +0000 Subject: [Linux-ia64] Re: kernel make install - why don't we make it easy like on ia32? Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 22:38:02 -0800, Piet/Pete Delaney said: Piet> I was wondering why the ia32 style of installing boot stuff Piet> like /boot/vmlinuz that done in: Piet> arch/i386/boot/Makefile and arch/i386/boot/install.sh Piet> isn't being done for ia64. Piet> I'm thinking of makeing a few tweaks to the ia32 version to Piet> copy kernel stuff to /boot and /boot/efi. I've been using a Piet> hack on the top level kernel Makefile but it's a hack to do it Piet> there. The ia32 paradigm seems fine; so why isn't it done for Piet> ia64. Even after applying the ia64 patch to linux-2.4.18, a Piet> 'make install' in the top level kernel Makefile still breaks. No particular reasons. Just a case of something I'd never want to use myself and nobody else sending a patch. --david