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From: "J . A . Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: Sergey Kubushin <ksi@cyberbills.com>
Cc: "J . A . Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.2ac12
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 00:30:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010306003056.C1136@werewolf.able.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010305235629.A1136@werewolf.able.es> <Pine.LNX.4.31ksi3.0103051507140.12620-100000@nomad.cyberbills.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.31ksi3.0103051507140.12620-100000@nomad.cyberbills.com>; from ksi@cyberbills.com on Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 00:13:24 +0100


On 03.06 Sergey Kubushin wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, J . A . Magallon wrote:
> 
> > What that line does is to build a tool (aicasm) to generate the ucode
> > that
> > is built into the kernel (afaik, it is a kind of assembler from a
> > language
> > to AIC sequencer code). That is, the tool uses db1 (as mkdep.c uses
> > glibc)
> > but once you have generated the sequencer instructions, that is what is
> > built
> > into the kernel, not the tool (aicasm).
> 
> It's very nice... Now one should have not only special kgcc to build the
> kernel, but also the obsolete library with all the development stuff
> installed... Is it sane?
> 

What I dunno is why the h... is needed to rebuild the code everytime you build
a kernel. Just ship the ucode and remove the aicasm subtree from kernel.
Perhaps mrproper makes things too clean, and just should leave there the
sequencer code.

-- 
J.A. Magallon                                                      $> cd pub
mailto:jamagallon@able.es                                          $> more beer

Linux werewolf 2.4.2-ac11 #1 SMP Sat Mar 3 22:18:57 CET 2001 i686


  reply	other threads:[~2001-03-05 23:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-03-05 21:01 Linux 2.4.2ac12 Alan Cox
2001-03-05 21:17 ` Alexander Viro
2001-03-05 22:43   ` Sergey Kubushin
2001-03-05 22:56     ` J . A . Magallon
2001-03-05 23:11       ` Alexander Viro
2001-03-06  2:06         ` Alan Cox
2001-03-06  2:39           ` Alexander Viro
2001-03-05 23:13       ` Sergey Kubushin
2001-03-05 23:30         ` J . A . Magallon [this message]
2001-03-05 23:07     ` Jeff Garzik
2001-03-05 23:21       ` Sergey Kubushin
2001-03-05 23:31         ` Jeff Garzik
2001-03-06  2:04     ` Alan Cox
2001-03-06  2:10       ` Sergey Kubushin
2001-03-06  2:19         ` Alan Cox
2001-03-05 21:37 ` David Riley
2001-03-05 21:48   ` John Silva
2001-03-06  8:14   ` Vojtech Pavlik
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-03-05 21:01 Alan Cox

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