Re: [Devil-linux-develop] kernel compile

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Diego Torres wrote:

>On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:25:37AM -0400, Heiko Zuerker wrote:
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>>Modifications have to be done to the following scripts:
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>I've added support for EPIA C3-2 CPUs to the build system.
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>There are only two files modified:
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>- configuration/prepare.config
>added a KERNEL tag to the menuconfig options, so now one could choose the cpu type for the linux kernel.
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>This is completely independant from the CONFIG_CPU switch. So now we have:
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>CONFIG_CPU : the command passed to gcc as -march=type
>CONFIG_KERNEL_CPU : the string appended to the linux .config file.
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>- scripts/prepare
>one line modified, so $CONFIG_KERNEL_CPU is written to the .config file.
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>So, as pointed on the kernel mailing list (see the link on prepare.config), for an epia c3-2 motherboard you have to choose CPU=686 and KERNEL=VIAC3-2.
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>Adding support for athlons (etc) should be very easy...
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>is everyone happy with this change? it works and it's simple :)
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Should we keep it separated or rather have only one configuration parameter?

I think 1 should be better. We could set then the other one within the 
scripts.

cya
   Heiko