[Buildroot] What's up with the kernel names? (Again)

Thiago A. Corrêa thiago.correa at gmail.com
Fri Feb 6 15:18:48 UTC 2009


On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Thiago A. Corrêa
<thiago.correa at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ulf> If you add KERNEL_VERSION to the root fs name you do things
> Ulf> automatically, if you dont then everything is manually, and you
> Ulf> have a risk of mismatch between name and actual version.  I
> Ulf> would not mind that the rootfs contains kernel version, but it
> Ulf> will break the at91 u-boot autoscripts which means that it
> Ulf> should avoided at this point, and introduced in a future
> Ulf> buildroot.
>
> I suspect that the autoscript generation uses the same variable as the
> kernel build. Otherwise it's impossible to predict your current naming
> scheme. If so, it wouldn't break anything, as the variable is
> preserved, just it's contents changed slightly.

>From target/u-boot/Makefile.in:
        echo setenv linux $(LINUX26_KERNEL_NAME).gz >> $(U_BOOT_AUTOSCRIPT)

So, it should be ok.


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