On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 02:03:13AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 01:57:59PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > > > > BTW, is anyone working on 2.4 PowerMac boot disks then? > > > > Colin Walters and i were going to look at it shortly, do you have any > > suggestions on the best method to implement flavors for different > > kernel versions? > > Yah, just have the top level call a new makefile target for the > root/rescue/driver disks with the flavor name. Try to see if you can > use the existing suffix rules in make/* and can squeak thru without > too many gross hacks.
i tried to get a handle on how the makefiles worked, all i ended up with was a headache... > It is rather uncharted territory since I don't know if anyone has > combined subarches and flavors. You might wanna just think of it as a > new subarch (ppc2.4), I dunno. yeah it doesn't appear so. a new subarch is probably prone to some problems since they are referenced all over the place, otoh it looks to me like the most straightforward way to go. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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