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diff --git a/Documentation/sparc/README-2.5 b/Documentation/sparc/README-2.5 deleted file mode 100644 index 806fe490a56d..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/sparc/README-2.5 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,46 +0,0 @@ -BTFIXUP -------- - -To build new kernels you have to issue "make image". The ready kernel -in ELF format is placed in arch/sparc/boot/image. Explanation is below. - -BTFIXUP is a unique feature of Linux/sparc among other architectures, -developed by Jakub Jelinek (I think... Obviously David S. Miller took -part, too). It allows to boot the same kernel at different -sub-architectures, such as sun4c, sun4m, sun4d, where SunOS uses -different kernels. This feature is convinient for people who you move -disks between boxes and for distrution builders. - -To function, BTFIXUP must link the kernel "in the draft" first, -analyze the result, write a special stub code based on that, and -build the final kernel with the stub (btfix.o). - -Kai Germaschewski improved the build system of the kernel in the 2.5 series -significantly. Unfortunately, the traditional way of running the draft -linking from architecture specific Makefile before the actual linking -by generic Makefile is nearly impossible to support properly in the -new build system. Therefore, the way we integrate BTFIXUP with the -build system was changed in 2.5.40. Now, generic Makefile performs -the draft linking and stores the result in file vmlinux. Architecture -specific post-processing invokes BTFIXUP machinery and final linking -in the same way as other architectures do bootstraps. - -Implications of that change are as follows. - -1. Hackers must type "make image" now, instead of just "make", in the same - way as s390 people do now. It is analogous to "make bzImage" on i386. - This does NOT affect sparc64, you continue to use "make" to build sparc64 - kernels. - -2. vmlinux is not the final kernel, so RPM builders have to adjust - their spec files (if they delivered vmlinux for debugging). - System.map generated for vmlinux is still valid. - -3. Scripts that produce a.out images have to be changed. First, if they - invoke make, they have to use "make image". Second, they have to pick up - the new kernel in arch/sparc/boot/image instead of vmlinux. - -4. Since we are compliant with Kai's build system now, make -j is permitted. - --- Pete Zaitcev -zaitcev@yahoo.com |