[Buildroot] What's up with the kernel names? (Again)
Peter Korsgaard
jacmet at uclibc.org
Wed Feb 4 07:39:48 UTC 2009
>>>>> "Thiago" == Thiago A Corrêa <thiago.correa at gmail.com> writes:
Thiago> Hi,
Thiago> I thought it was seattled sometime last year that kernel names
Thiago> would not include timestamps or any think that breaks u-boot from
Thiago> loading the kernel.
I thought so as well.
Thiago> I just had atngw100-linux-2.6.27.13-20090203.gz for a kernel name.
Thiago> It's already bad enough that rootfs has stupid timestamps, we don't
Thiago> really need kernel binaries too. If I wanted to preserve binaries, I
Thiago> would copy them over before building again. Whenever I type make, I
Thiago> expect things to be overwritten.
Thiago> As I develop a system, I don't want to find out that I'm out of
Thiago> disk space because it has every single failed attempt in binaries
Thiago> folder. I also don't want to touch u-boot in anyway, don't care if
Thiago> there are autoscripts or not. Ideally it would be named uImage like
Thiago> the kernel folks intended.
Thiago> Peter, could we hear your opinion on this? At least let's make
Thiago> this optional and never bother with it again.
I agree. I'll look closer into it.
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Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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