Re: kernel since 5.6 do not boot anymore on Apple PowerBook

[Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>]

Hi

Le 08/07/2020 à 19:00, Giuseppe Sacco a écrit :
> Hello,
> while trying to debug a problem using git bisect, I am now at a point
> where I cannot build the kernel at all. This is the error message I
> get:
> 
> $ LANG=C make ARCH=powerpc \
>   CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-linux- \
>   CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP=true \
>   INSTALL_MOD_STRIP=1 CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS=1 \
>   -j4 INSTALL_MOD_PATH=$BOOT INSTALL_PATH=$BOOT \
>   CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED=1 \
>   install modules_install
> make[2]: *** No rule to make target 'vmlinux', needed by

Surprising.

Did you make any change to Makefiles ?

Are you in the middle of a bisect ? If so, if the previous builds 
worked, I'd do 'git bisect skip'

What's the result with:

LANG=C make ARCH=powerpc CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-linux- vmlinux

Christophe

> 'arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.pmac'.  Stop.
> make[1]: *** [arch/powerpc/Makefile:407: install] Error 2
> make: *** [Makefile:328: __build_one_by_one] Error 2
> 
> How can I continue?
> 
> Thank you,
> Giuseppe
>