[PATCH] powerpc: Add support for building uImages

Kumar Gala galak at gate.crashing.org
Thu Nov 24 06:02:59 EST 2005


On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Sam Ravnborg wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 12:43:15PM -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:
> > +
> > +$(obj)/uImage: $(obj)/vmlinux.gz
> > +	$(Q)rm -f $@
> > +	$(call if_changed,uimage)
> > +	@echo -n '  Image: $@ '
> > +	@if [ -f $@ ]; then echo 'is ready' ; else echo 'not made'; fi
> 
> The above is suboptimal. The $(call if_changed,uimage) will execute
> $(cmd_uimage) if 1) prerequisites has changed or 2) the command to execute
> has changed.
> In the above case 1) is always true, otherwise we would not reach the
> statement. So change it to $(call cmd,uimage) is the correct way.
> 
> The 'bug' is also present in ppc/boot/images

thanks.  I'll send a follow up patch to fix both cases.

- kumar




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