Re: mkvmlinuz patches broken

[Sven Luther <luther@debian.org>]

On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 06:17:47PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> Hi folks
> 
> Both mkvmlinuz patches are more or less broken:
> - ppc: Expects to be run from arch/ppc/boot.
> - powerpc: Make kbuild call MODPOST only with the vmlinux image and
>   kills all informations about symbols in modules.
> 
> The first is worked around, the second needs a fix ASAP.

If you have some hint on where to look for the right way to do this, i
may look at producing a patch. Not sure though as i am kind of busy
right now.

This is a problem only in your new kernel-package less build
infrastructure, or something related to newer upstreams, or something
which was present previously and not noted ? 

$ make mkvmlinuz_support_install INSTALL_MKVMLINUZ=/tmp/blah
  CHK     include/linux/version.h
  CHK     include/linux/utsrelease.h
  CHK     include/linux/compile.h
  MODPOST vmlinux
  mkdir -p /tmp/blah
  INSTALL mkvmlinuz support files

I guess this is the modpost line which is problematic, right ? 

Bastian, if i understand this right, it worked previously, because the
mkvmlinuz_support_install call was done *AFTER* all the installation
happened, while you do it earlier ? 

Friendly,

Sven Luther