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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: nick@snowman.net
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Minor nit to pick
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 23:37:55 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3260.989847475@ocs3.ocs-net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 14 May 2001 00:16:50 -0400." <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105140014530.20415-100000@ns>

On Mon, 14 May 2001 00:16:50 -0400 (EDT), 
<nick@snowman.net> wrote:
>After running make menuconfig (and it's friends) you get told
>to type "make bzImage" which is only right for i386, and IMHO should be
>changed to be arch dependant.

The 2.5 Makefile rewrite splits the kernel build into three phases:
configure, compile to vmlinux/modules and convert vmlinux to the
required install format.  bzImage is an example of install format and
install formats will be architecture dependent in 2.5.  We're working
on it.


      reply	other threads:[~2001-05-14 13:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-14  4:16 Minor nit to pick nick
2001-05-14 13:37 ` Keith Owens [this message]

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