vmlinux and bzImage

[Drew Lane]

I haven't done this in a long while, but I think it should be
'make vmlinux' instead of 'make bzImage' when using PPC.

Maybe someone with more experience can confirm.

Drew


William Gerik wrote:

>This thread may actually belong to the yellowdog-newbies mailing list, and I 
>apologize in advance if this comes off as a stupid question or if this is 
>general knowledge to most.
>
>I'm in the process of compiling a new kernel and I've gotten as far as using 
>xconfig to configure the kernel exactly how I want it and running 'make dep' 
>to make dependencies. Now this is where I'm getting confused. 
>
>I haven't been able to find adequate documentation on compiling a kernel in 
>yellow dog (I read the how-to on ydl website, but it's lacking), but I 
>assumed it was pretty similar to doing it with any other x86 linux 
>distribution. I guess I was wrong.  
>
>My next step in the kernel compilation was to 'make bzImage' and everything 
>seemed to work fine (I didn't see any errors). I went ahead and executed 
>'make modules' and 'make modules_install' and I expected to have a nice 
>kernel image ready for me when this completed, but instead I can't find a 
>bzImage anywhere on my system.
>
>All I really want to know is if I'm doing this right.  Is there some other 
>kernel image format I should be using or some other process I should be 
>following to do this?
>
>A really detailed and extensive explanation would be greatly appreciated.
>
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>William Gerik
>will@ih2000.net
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