Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc2: forgot how to make a zImage on powerpc?

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc2: forgot how to make a zImage on powerpc?

[Mark Glines]

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> (much of the latter syntactic cleanups). And arm and powerpc updates.

Hmm.  I'm trying to build 2.6.20-rc2 on a little powerpc box with 
arch/powerpc/configs/linkstation_defconfig, and I get:

paranoid@kuro-2 /usr/src/linux $ make zImage
   HOSTCC  scripts/basic/fixdep
   HOSTCC  scripts/basic/docproc
   HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/conf.o
   HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/kxgettext.o
[snip lots of buildspam]
   LD      lib/zlib_deflate/built-in.o
   LD      lib/zlib_inflate/built-in.o
   GEN     .version
   LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
   KSYM    .tmp_kallsyms1.S
   AS      .tmp_kallsyms1.o
   LD      .tmp_vmlinux2
   KSYM    .tmp_kallsyms2.S
   AS      .tmp_kallsyms2.o
   LD      vmlinux
   SYSMAP  System.map
   SYSMAP  .tmp_System.map
   MODPOST vmlinux
ln: accessing `arch/powerpc/boot/zImage': No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [arch/powerpc/boot/zImage] Error 1
make: *** [zImage] Error 2

So, uh, are we forgetting to go into the right subdirectory to make the 
actual zImage, or what?  If I'm just doing something wrong, I'd love to 
know what it is.

I'll follow up here on lkml if I diagnose this further.  Thanks,

Mark

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc2: forgot how to make a zImage on powerpc?

[Mark Glines]

Mark Glines wrote:
> Hmm.  I'm trying to build 2.6.20-rc2 on a little powerpc box with 
> arch/powerpc/configs/linkstation_defconfig, and I get:
...
>   MODPOST vmlinux
> ln: accessing `arch/powerpc/boot/zImage': No such file or directory
> make[1]: *** [arch/powerpc/boot/zImage] Error 1
> make: *** [zImage] Error 2
> 
> So, uh, are we forgetting to go into the right subdirectory to make the 
> actual zImage, or what?  If I'm just doing something wrong, I'd love to 
> know what it is.
> 
> I'll follow up here on lkml if I diagnose this further.  Thanks,


Followup:  Yeah, it looks like it just doesn't know which format of 
zImage to produce for linkstation.

I'm not sure what image should be used by default.  I guess it depends 
on the bootloader.  Maybe default to uImage, as uBoot seems to be fairly 
common on these devices?

Mark

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc2: forgot how to make a zImage on powerpc?

[Guennadi Liakhovetski]

On Mon, 25 Dec 2006, Mark Glines wrote:

> Mark Glines wrote:
> > Hmm.  I'm trying to build 2.6.20-rc2 on a little powerpc box with
> > arch/powerpc/configs/linkstation_defconfig, and I get:
> ...
> >   MODPOST vmlinux
> > ln: accessing `arch/powerpc/boot/zImage': No such file or directory
> > make[1]: *** [arch/powerpc/boot/zImage] Error 1
> > make: *** [zImage] Error 2
> > 
> > So, uh, are we forgetting to go into the right subdirectory to make the
> > actual zImage, or what?  If I'm just doing something wrong, I'd love to know
> > what it is.
> > 
> > I'll follow up here on lkml if I diagnose this further.  Thanks,
> 
> 
> Followup:  Yeah, it looks like it just doesn't know which format of zImage to
> produce for linkstation.
> 
> I'm not sure what image should be used by default.  I guess it depends on the
> bootloader.  Maybe default to uImage, as uBoot seems to be fairly common on
> these devices?

Yes, uImage is the format used on linkstation. Is there a way to cleanly 
specify this in the kernel sources apart from a comment in Kconfig?

Thanks
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski