On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 12:07:06AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 06:39:44PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 01:32:54AM +0000, Michael Blakeley wrote:
> >
> > > ...which I guess is ok, since the build proceeded anyway. But after
> > > building the kernel it stopped with:
> > [snip]
> >
> > That's because with 2.4.4 (or was it 2.4.5 ppc sync'ed up, heh..) images
> > are no longer in arch/ppc/XXXboot/something, they're
> > arch/ppc/boot/images/zImage{,.initrd}.XXXX, which end up being symlinks,
> > in some cases. I think the zImage.pmac symlink is to the new-world bootable
> > images, not coff. But anyhow, I should probably go & file a bug&patch
> > for this sometime...
>
> just don't break building for 2.2.
:)
> coff images are still useful for booting oldworlds no?
Yes, but they just aren't 'zImage.pmac'. I couldn't decide
which of the 3 to point to.
> while your at would you mind fixing #100579 too? thats my report
> about the worthless way kernel-images deal with powerpc bootloaders,
> its being completly ignored.
I'll take a look.
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