From: BlaisorBlade <blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it>
To: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>,
Julian Scheid <julian@sektor37.de>,
jdike@karaya.com
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] Default kernel configuration on 2.6.x
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 01:47:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200410120147.06971.blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23090.1097535525@marajade.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
On Tuesday 12 October 2004 00:58, Michael Richardson wrote:
> >>>>> "Julian" == Julian Scheid <julian@sektor37.de> writes:
>
> Julian> Therefore I think it would make sense to have the UML
> Julian> patches for the affected kernel versions remove the second
> Julian> through fourth element from conf_confnames (as shown above)
> Julian> so that the build will immediately fall back to
> Julian> arch/um/defconfig if .config isn't found, always ignoring
> Julian> status quo configuration files on the host. A corresponding
> Julian> patch for 2.6.8.1 is attached.
>
> I have a better suggestion.
> Make it ignore those suggestions *COMPLETELY* when
> $ARCH != `uname -m`
> $SUBARCH != `uname -m`
> Since those suggestions are wrong for all cross-compilation as well,
> and this is a form of cross-compilation.
>
> {well, uname -m is wrong. I never did find a standard utility that
> returned 'i386'. arch -k used to do the right thing on SunOS, but it
> never did the right thing on any Linux distro}
In fact this is workarounded in the main Makefile.
However a even better setting IMHO is to check if the user has asked for a
cross compilation (i.e. with ARCH specified on command line, or something
such; I'll dig anyway on this). I will put together a patch ASAP.
Bye
--
Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade
Linux registered user n. 292729
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-11 22:22 [uml-devel] Default kernel configuration on 2.6.x Julian Scheid
2004-10-11 22:58 ` Michael Richardson
2004-10-11 23:47 ` BlaisorBlade [this message]
2004-10-11 23:46 ` BlaisorBlade
2004-10-12 0:41 ` Julian Scheid
2004-10-12 1:01 ` BlaisorBlade
2004-10-12 1:39 ` Julian Scheid
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