kernel make install - why don't we make it easy like on ia32?
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Piet> I was wondering why the ia32 style of installing boot stuff Piet> like /boot/vmlinuz that done in:
Piet> arch/i386/boot/Makefile and arch/i386/boot/install.sh
Piet> isn't being done for ia64.
Piet> I'm thinking of makeing a few tweaks to the ia32 version to Piet> copy kernel stuff to /boot and /boot/efi. I've been using a Piet> hack on the top level kernel Makefile but it's a hack to do it Piet> there. The ia32 paradigm seems fine; so why isn't it done for Piet> ia64. Even after applying the ia64 patch to linux-2.4.18, a Piet> 'make install' in the top level kernel Makefile still breaks.
No particular reasons. Just a case of something I'd never want to use myself and nobody else sending a patch.
--david