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Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:31:50 -0700
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: "Tim Gardner" <tim.gardner@onstor.com>
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Subject: Re: request for comments
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On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:29:24 -0700 "Tim Gardner"
<tim.gardner@onstor.com> wrote:

> Looks good Andy.
> I would like there to be the usual shortcut targets (cg-rootfs,
> bl-rootfs, etc) so that we can bypass having to specify PROD= on the
> make line.

That would be in the rootfs Makefile, so I'll leave that up to Larry.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Sharp 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 6:20 PM
> To: Larry Scheer
> Cc: Tim Gardner
> Subject: request for comments
> 
> OK, I think I've got the linux/kernel/Makefile hammered into a better
> fit with the make rootfs stuff.  Let me know what you think.  Here's
> the highlights:
> 
> 'make kernel' no longer does a kernel-install
> 
> 'make kernel-install' triggers a make kernel-build if there is no
> vmlinux file, or .config is newer than vmlinux.
> 
> the 'make rootfs' currently does a 'make kernel-install'
> 
> This means that if you're used to sitting in linux/kernel directory
> and doing a 'make kernel' and have it do everything including
> install, then you will have to retrain yourself to also do a 'make
> kernel-install' afterwards.
> 
> This makes the rootfs Makefile very simple.
> 
> Alternatively, Larry could bring back the
> $(ROOTFS)/boot/vmlinux.whatever dependency based kernel install
> portion of the rootfs Makefile, and fix it up (it wasn't ready to
> deal with vmlinux v. vmlinux.bin).
> 
> I'll leave it up to you, Larry.  Just let me know if I need to mod the
> kernel Makefile any more.
> 
> ========================================================
> 
> Change 25195 by andys@ripper on 2007/08/28 18:15:11 *pending*
> 
>         Add more support for two platforms of kernels.
>         Remove kernel-install as a dependency of kernel.
>         Change kernel-install to trigger a build of the
>         kernel if there isn't a fresh one there already.
>         
>         Reviewed by 
> 
> Affected files ...
> 
> ... //depot/dev/linux/kernel/Makefile#6 edit
