From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 17:40:55 +0000 Subject: Re: Why sim/boot in -test4? 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 Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 10:32:20AM -0700, David Mosberger wrote: > >>>>> On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:49:54 +0100, Matthew Wilcox said: > > Matthew> $ cvs diff -rLINUS_260_TEST3 -rLINUS_260_TEST4 arch/ia64/Makefile > Matthew> [...] > Matthew> -boot := arch/ia64/boot > Matthew> +boot := arch/ia64/hp/sim/boot > > Matthew> Why was this change made? It's not causing me any > Matthew> problems, just a bit of confusion when I noticed my > Matthew> previous vmlinux.gz wasn't getting updated any more. > > It's just a general cleanup. The bootloader ended up never being used > for anything other than the simulator, so moving it to hp/sim makes sense. > > Are you saying "make compressed" doesn't build vmlinux.gz anymore? It > seems to work for me. Oh, it builds it, it just builds it inside the sim directory. That's not actually a problem, it just made me think there might be a problem. Here's the messages: LD vmlinux OBJCOPY arch/ia64/hp/sim/boot/vmlinux.bin GZIP arch/ia64/hp/sim/boot/vmlinux.gz LN vmlinux.gz Kernel: vmlinux.gz is ready Since it used to do OBJCOPY arch/ia64/boot/vmlinux.bin GZIP arch/ia64/boot/vmlinux.gz LN vmlinux.gz I thought I'd broken something with my other makefile change. By the way, -test3 used to take a really really long time to link each step, and -test4 doesn't. I don't know whether this was an intentional fix, but I'm certainly happy to see it. -- "It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?" -- Robert Fisk