[PATCH] ppc64: Build zImage.vmode for G5

Geoff Levand geoffrey.levand at am.sony.com
Fri Sep 23 09:51:31 EST 2005


Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 14:02 -0700, Geoff Levand wrote:
> 
> 
>>This is really just a half fix, since if you have say both CONFIG_PPC_PSERIES
>>and CONFIG_PPC_PMAC, 'make install' will always install zImage.vmode, even for
>>pSeries machines.
>>
>>I thought we could have a default platform in Kconfig as below, but it looks 
>>messy.  Any ideas how we can fix this?  Remember we need to handle cross 
>>building on different machines/archs.
> 
> 
> Hrm... I don't like that much... I wonder what it would take to put some
> intelligence in the makefile to detect the machine you are running on
> and do the proper install..
> 

Host detection won't work in general.  It won't handle cross building on say 
a PC with INSTALL_MOD_PATH and INSTALL_PATH set.  'make install' should work 
as expected in this case.  That's what I meant by handle cross building.

-Geoff





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