From: Hollis Blanchard <hollis@penguinppc•org>
To: linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org>
Subject: Re: make install on ppc
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 21:43:16 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f78eb6c06abb98fbc1cf8ae32bbf2268@penguinppc.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200603261956.40700.bcook@bpointsys.com>
On Mar 26, 2006, at 7:56 PM, Brent Cook wrote:
> On Sunday 26 March 2006 19:42, Jin Qi Huang wrote:
>> I also think the 'make install' is very useful, now on ia32, the 'make
>> install' provided by the latest kernel linux-2.6.16 not only create
>> initrd, copy vmlinuz and System.map to /boot directory, but also
>> update
>> grub, ppc32 does not provide this useful feature, maybe it is a pity!
The feature sounds like a good idea to me, even if it's just the
copying files part. Do any PPC distros provide a working installkernel
script?
> Maybe narrow it to define 'make install' for new world/old world
> Macintoshes,
> or IBM machines? I can't see a generic make install being useful for
> the
> wider range of platforms that fall under ppc.
>
> 'make install' appears to me to be very platform dependent. Sure, on
> x86, you
> can reasonably assume that the majority of systems have the kernel on
> a disk
> under /boot and the bootloader is grub or lilo. I have 5 ppc machines
> currently, and no two use the same bootloader or kernel image. I've
> seen
> u-boot, yaboot, quik, powerboot (Motorola/Force), xmon (XES) and more,
> and
> they all required different post-processing to the kernel image to
> boot. For
> most of these, there is no way to programmatically guess where a
> particular
> kernel image should go to work with the boot loader.
If you have an unusual platform, don't run make install and you have
lost nothing... :)
-Hollis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-28 3:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-21 14:08 [Fwd: Re: make install on ppc] Hans Fugal
2006-03-26 19:26 ` make install on ppc Hollis Blanchard
2006-03-26 20:43 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-03-26 21:44 ` Hans Fugal
2006-03-27 1:42 ` Jin Qi Huang
2006-03-27 1:56 ` Brent Cook
2006-03-28 3:43 ` Hollis Blanchard [this message]
2006-03-28 3:59 ` Jin Qi Huang
2006-03-28 19:06 ` Geoff Levand
2006-03-28 20:02 ` Hollis Blanchard
2006-03-28 20:30 ` Geoff Levand
2006-03-28 21:13 ` Paul Mackerras
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