Re: [PATCH 1/5] kbuild: default kernel image

Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-15T08:59:56Z

On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 09:38:07AM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> AFAIAC, if the boot loader does not support the standard Image or
> zImage format, both of which are the fully documented "official"
> ARM kernel formats, it is up to the boot loader to provide whatever
> scripts or programs are needed to manipulate the output of the kernel
> build to whatever the boot loader wants.

And we have /sbin/installkernel and ~/bin/installkernel as defined hooks
for that. No need to support everything and a kitchensink in the kernel
build process. In fact I'd love to reduce what the kernel builds to just
vmlinux and vmlinux.gz, but I guess all those lilo user will kill me ;-)