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2009-01-02kbuild: make *config usage docsRandy Dunlap1-12/+20
Create a kconfig user assistance guide, with a few tips and hints about using menuconfig, xconfig, and gconfig. Mostly contains user interface, environment variables, and search topics, along with mini.config/custom.config usage. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-11-17x86: simplify "make ARCH=x86" and fix kconfig all.configSam Ravnborg1-2/+0
Simplify "make ARCH=x86" and fix kconfig so we again can set 64BIT in all.config. For a fix the diffstat is nice: 6 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-) The patch reverts these commits: - 0f855aa64b3f63d35a891510cf7db932a435c116 ("kconfig: add helper to set config symbol from environment variable") - 2a113281f5cd2febbab21a93c8943f8d3eece4d3 ("kconfig: use $K64BIT to set 64BIT with all*config targets") Roman Zippel pointed out that kconfig supported string compares so the additional complexity introduced by the above two patches were not needed. With this patch we have following behaviour: # make {allno,allyes,allmod,rand}config [ARCH=...] option \ host arch | 32bit | 64bit ===================================================== ./. | 32bit | 64bit ARCH=x86 | 32bit | 32bit ARCH=i386 | 32bit | 32bit ARCH=x86_64 | 64bit | 64bit The general rule are that ARCH= and native architecture takes precedence over the configuration. So make ARCH=i386 [whatever] will always build a 32-bit kernel no matter what the configuration says. The configuration will be updated to 32-bit if it was configured to 64-bit and the other way around. This behaviour is consistent with previous behaviour so no suprises here. make ARCH=x86 will per default result in a 32-bit kernel but as the only ARCH= value x86 allow the user to select between 32-bit and 64-bit using menuconfig. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Andreas Herrmann <aherrman@arcor.de> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-12kconfig: use $K64BIT to set 64BIT with all*config targetsSam Ravnborg1-0/+2
The variable K64BIT can now be used to select the value of CONFIG_64BIT. This is for example useful for powerpc to generate allmodconfig for both bit sizes - like this: make ARCH=powerpc K64BIT=y make ARCH=powerpc K64BIT=n To use this the Kconfig file must use "64BIT" as the config value to select between 32 and 64 bit. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
2007-02-17Remove duplicate listing of Cris arch from READMEJesper Juhl1-1/+1
Mikael Pettersson pointed out to me that a recent patch of mine (commit 620034c84d1d939717bdfbe02c51a3fee43541c3), that made some corrections to the README file, accidentally listed the Cris architecture twice. Whoops. This patch removes the duplicate. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2007-01-24Change Linus' email address tooLinus Torvalds1-2/+2
This changes a few mentions of my email address to point to the new one, leaving things like old copyright messages alone. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] A few small additions and corrections to READMEJesper Juhl1-6/+11
Here's a small patch which - adds a few archs to the current list of supported platforms. - adds a few missing slashes at the end of URLs. - adds a few references to additional documentation. - adds "make config" to the list of possible configuration targets. - makes a few other minor changes. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> [ Ben Nizette <ben.nizette@iinet.net.au> points out AVR32 arch too ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-19[PATCH] config: update usage/help infoRandy Dunlap1-1/+22
Replace outdated help message with a reference to README. Update README for make *config variants and environment variable info. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-20README: bzip2 is not newHåkon Løvdal1-1/+1
From: Håkon Løvdal <Hakon.Lovdal@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Håkon Løvdal <Hakon.Lovdal@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-01-17[PATCH] README updatedXose Vazquez Perez1-11/+19
Replace old information with newer from kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-09[PATCH] remove gcc-2 checksAndrew Morton1-5/+2
Remove various things which were checking for gcc-1.x and gcc-2.x compilers. From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Some documentation updates and removes some code paths for gcc < 3.2. Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-14[PATCH] README: add info about -stable to README and point at ↵Jesper Juhl1-0/+5
applying-patches.txt Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-31[PATCH] README doesn't mention bzip2 source tarballHorms1-0/+4
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-23[PATCH] corrections to top-level READMERandy Dunlap1-4/+4
Corrections to the recent top-level README changes. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-21[PATCH] README update from the stone agePaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso1-3/+6
We have no options which the user can set in the Makefile. Only the EXTRAVERSION, which is also useful in place of the "backup modules" suggestion. We don't have configuration options in the top Makefile. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28[PATCH] Add text for dealing with "dot releases" to READMEKurt Wall1-0/+10
The emergence of so-called "dot releases" that are non-incremental patches against a base kernel requires different handling of patches (revert previous patches before applying the newest one). This patch adds a paragrach to $TOPDIR/README explaining how to do deal with dot release patches. Signed-off-by: Kurt Wall <kwall@kurtwerks.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-17Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds1-0/+305
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
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