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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-09-23 15:37:02 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-09-23 15:37:02 -0700
commitc37efa932598de5e30330a1414e34d9e082e0d9e (patch)
tree1e3b782d257fa39a54f583af3dc7c32d7cffc67d /Documentation
parent9e12a7e7d89ad813d01092890010cf67d0f914bd (diff)
parentabe1ee3a221d53778c3e58747bbec6e518e5471b (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next: (30 commits) Use macros for .data.page_aligned section. Use macros for .bss.page_aligned section. Use new __init_task_data macro in arch init_task.c files. kbuild: Don't define ALIGN and ENTRY when preprocessing linker scripts. arm, cris, mips, sparc, powerpc, um, xtensa: fix build with bash 4.0 kbuild: add static to prototypes kbuild: fail build if recordmcount.pl fails kbuild: set -fconserve-stack option for gcc 4.5 kbuild: echo the record_mcount command gconfig: disable "typeahead find" search in treeviews kbuild: fix cc1 options check to ensure we do not use -fPIC when compiling checkincludes.pl: add option to remove duplicates in place markup_oops: use modinfo to avoid confusion with underscored module names checkincludes.pl: provide usage helper checkincludes.pl: close file as soon as we're done with it ctags: usability fix kernel hacking: move STRIP_ASM_SYMS from General gitignore usr/initramfs_data.cpio.bz2 and usr/initramfs_data.cpio.lzma kbuild: Check if linker supports the -X option kbuild: introduce ld-option ... Fix trivial conflict in scripts/basic/fixdep.c
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt16
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt20
2 files changed, 33 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
index f3355b6812d..bb3bf38f03d 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
@@ -65,6 +65,22 @@ INSTALL_PATH
INSTALL_PATH specifies where to place the updated kernel and system map
images. Default is /boot, but you can set it to other values.
+INSTALLKERNEL
+--------------------------------------------------
+Install script called when using "make install".
+The default name is "installkernel".
+
+The script will be called with the following arguments:
+ $1 - kernel version
+ $2 - kernel image file
+ $3 - kernel map file
+ $4 - default install path (use root directory if blank)
+
+The implmentation of "make install" is architecture specific
+and it may differ from the above.
+
+INSTALLKERNEL is provided to enable the possibility to
+specify a custom installer when cross compiling a kernel.
MODLIB
--------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
index d76cfd8712e..71c602d6168 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ This document describes the Linux kernel Makefiles.
--- 3.9 Dependency tracking
--- 3.10 Special Rules
--- 3.11 $(CC) support functions
+ --- 3.12 $(LD) support functions
=== 4 Host Program support
--- 4.1 Simple Host Program
@@ -435,14 +436,14 @@ more details, with real examples.
The second argument is optional, and if supplied will be used
if first argument is not supported.
- ld-option
- ld-option is used to check if $(CC) when used to link object files
+ cc-ldoption
+ cc-ldoption is used to check if $(CC) when used to link object files
supports the given option. An optional second option may be
specified if first option are not supported.
Example:
#arch/i386/kernel/Makefile
- vsyscall-flags += $(call ld-option, -Wl$(comma)--hash-style=sysv)
+ vsyscall-flags += $(call cc-ldoption, -Wl$(comma)--hash-style=sysv)
In the above example, vsyscall-flags will be assigned the option
-Wl$(comma)--hash-style=sysv if it is supported by $(CC).
@@ -570,6 +571,19 @@ more details, with real examples.
endif
endif
+--- 3.12 $(LD) support functions
+
+ ld-option
+ ld-option is used to check if $(LD) supports the supplied option.
+ ld-option takes two options as arguments.
+ The second argument is an optional option that can be used if the
+ first option is not supported by $(LD).
+
+ Example:
+ #Makefile
+ LDFLAGS_vmlinux += $(call really-ld-option, -X)
+
+
=== 4 Host Program support
Kbuild supports building executables on the host for use during the