[Buildroot] What's up with the kernel names? (Again)

Peter Korsgaard jacmet at uclibc.org
Wed Feb 11 20:15:34 UTC 2009


>>>>> "Ulf" == Ulf Samuelsson <ulf.samuelsson at atmel.com> writes:

Hi,

 Ulf> Just for fun, I checked my OpenSuSE /boot directory

 Ulf> Guess what I found:

 Ulf> "vmlinuz" which happens to be a LINK to

 Ulf> vmlinuz-$(KERNEL_VERSION)-$(REV)-$PROJECT)
 Ulf> 
 Ulf> There was also a:
 Ulf> vmlinux-$(KERNEL_VERSION)-$(REV)-$PROJECT).gz file

 Ulf> Looks like the guys doing OpenSuSE are as "odd" as I am.

And guess what the kernel outputs? A simple arch/x86/boot/bzImage, as
platform/distribution specific naming convention doesn't belong in the
mainline kernel.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard



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