From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jesse Barnes Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 19:52:38 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] [PATCH] SN makefile update Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 08:46:04PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 03:08:19PM -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote: > > > > > > Most of it looks fine to me. However, is the fprom stuff ever going > > > to be useful to anyone other than SGI users? If not, I'd prefer if > > > we could put that stuff in an SGI-specific Makefile. > > > > Probably not, but I don't know how to put a makefile target like that > > in arch/ia64/sn/Makefile. Sam, is there a way to do this? > > The best proposal I can come up with right now is to accept the > following command: > make arch/ia64/sn/fprom/ fprom > > That should do the trick, if you go back to a fprom target without path. > > So arch/ia64/sn/fprom/Makefile looks something like this: > .PHONY: fakeprom > fakeprom: $(obj)/fakeprom > command to create fprom > > Then you may add the whle fakeprom directory only on internal SGI kernels. > Or you could have a special Makefile for SGI. > > Looks OK? Yeah, that's what I was afraid of, but I guess it'll be ok. David, can you take everything but the fprom target changes to arch/ia64/Makefile in the meantime? I can generate another patch for the stuff above later... Thanks, Jesse