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| author | Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> | 2009-07-20 21:37:11 +0200 |
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| committer | Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> | 2009-09-20 12:18:14 +0200 |
| commit | caa27b66bd7188fd063769eaf4b33533ef0709e6 (patch) | |
| tree | 57d9f96ad40712f690763fb205006938885bbc1a /Documentation | |
| parent | 78f28b7c555359c67c2a0d23f7436e915329421e (diff) | |
kbuild: use INSTALLKERNEL to select customized installkernel script
Replace the use of CROSS_COMPILE to select a customized
installkernel script with the possibility to set INSTALLKERNEL
to select a custom installkernel script when running make:
make INSTALLKERNEL=arm-installkernel install
With this patch we are now more consistent across
different architectures - they did not all support use
of CROSS_COMPILE.
The use of CROSS_COMPILE was a hack as this really belongs
to gcc/binutils and the installkernel script does not change
just because we change toolchain.
The use of CROSS_COMPILE caused troubles with an upcoming patch
that saves CROSS_COMPILE when a kernel is built - it would no
longer be installable.
[Thanks to Peter Z. for this hint]
This patch undos what Ian did in commit:
0f8e2d62fa04441cd12c08ce521e84e5bd3f8a46
("use ${CROSS_COMPILE}installkernel in arch/*/boot/install.sh")
The patch has been lightly tested on x86 only - but all changes
looks obvious.
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> [blackfin]
Acked-by: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> [arm]
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> [sh]
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> [x86]
Cc: Ian Campbell <icampbell@arcom.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> [ia64]
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> [ia64]
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> [m32r]
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> [m68k]
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> [parisc]
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> [powerpc]
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> [s390]
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> [x86]
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> [x86]
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt | 16 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt index f3355b6812df..bb3bf38f03da 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt @@ -65,6 +65,22 @@ INSTALL_PATH INSTALL_PATH specifies where to place the updated kernel and system map images. Default is /boot, but you can set it to other values. +INSTALLKERNEL +-------------------------------------------------- +Install script called when using "make install". +The default name is "installkernel". + +The script will be called with the following arguments: + $1 - kernel version + $2 - kernel image file + $3 - kernel map file + $4 - default install path (use root directory if blank) + +The implmentation of "make install" is architecture specific +and it may differ from the above. + +INSTALLKERNEL is provided to enable the possibility to +specify a custom installer when cross compiling a kernel. MODLIB -------------------------------------------------- |