linux-kernel - Re: [RFC,PATCH] scripts/package: add powerpc images to tarball

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Date:	Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:55:31 -0400
From:	"Grant Likely" <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
To:	"Milton Miller" <miltonm@....com>
Cc:	"Jeremy Kerr" <jk@...abs.org>, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCH] scripts/package: add powerpc images to tarball

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Milton Miller <miltonm@....com> wrote:
>
>> Currently, tarball builds for powerpc kernels don't have any boot
>> images (other than vmlinux) present.
>>
>> Add support for powerpc builds in the buildtar script, to include
>> a few default images.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk at ozlabs.org>
>>
>> ---
>> RFC: any requests for more/less boot images?
>>
> ..
>> +             for img in zImage zImage.pseries zImage.iseries \
>> +                             dtbImage dtbImage.ps3
>
> Yes.  How about all dtbImage, zImage, cuboot, treeboot, etc
> that are newer than vmlinux?

dtbImage is not a buildable image.  Neither is cuImage, treeImage or
simpleImage.  All of those targets embed a device tree which is
specified by adding the .dts filename to the target name.

so, for example, 'make cuImage' fails.  Instead you do 'make
cuImage.lite5200b' which pulls in dts/lite5200b.dts.

Also, zImage is a 'meta' target that builds all the default image
targets (the $image-y list).  The zImage is actually just a symlink to
the first file in the list of default images.  So zImage can actually
point to any kind of kernel image depending on how the kernel is
configured.  I wonder if we should just remove the zImage file
entirely, or at least make it always linked to one particular image
type.

g.

-- 
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
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