From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Fri, 09 Jan 2004 09:07:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from p508B6890.dip.t-dialin.net ([IPv6:::ffff:80.139.104.144]:11408 "EHLO mail.linux-mips.net") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 09:07:28 +0000 Received: from fluff.linux-mips.net (fluff.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by mail.linux-mips.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i0997OfY017369; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 10:07:24 +0100 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by fluff.linux-mips.net (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id i0997Lon017368; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 10:07:21 +0100 Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 10:07:21 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: Charlie Brady Cc: Dimitri Torfs , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.6] Fix Makefiles for CONFIG_EMBEDDED_RAMDISK Message-ID: <20040109090721.GC16940@linux-mips.org> References: <20040106205758.GA19525@sonycom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 3890 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 03:44:32PM -0500, Charlie Brady wrote: > > here are patches that fix the arch/mips/Makefile and > > arch/mips/ramdisk/Makefile when an embedded ramdisk image needs to > > be included through the CONFIG_EMBEDDED_RAMDISK option. > > I'm curious as to why this is a mips specific feature. Does anyone know? There's little machine dependence as you noticed; just the linker script would need to be fixed as it's hardwired to mips. Ralf