Re: Minor nit to pick

Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Mon, 14 May 2001 23:37:55 +1000


On Mon, 14 May 2001 00:16:50 -0400 (EDT),
<nick@snowman.net> wrote:
>After running make menuconfig (and it's friends) you get told
>to type "make bzImage" which is only right for i386, and IMHO should be
>changed to be arch dependant.

The 2.5 Makefile rewrite splits the kernel build into three phases:
configure, compile to vmlinux/modules and convert vmlinux to the
required install format. bzImage is an example of install format and
install formats will be architecture dependent in 2.5. We're working
on it.

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