Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Mar 2001 00:30:56 +0100 | From | "J . A . Magallon" <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.2ac12 |
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On 03.06 Sergey Kubushin wrote: > On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, J . A . Magallon wrote: > > > What that line does is to build a tool (aicasm) to generate the ucode > > that > > is built into the kernel (afaik, it is a kind of assembler from a > > language > > to AIC sequencer code). That is, the tool uses db1 (as mkdep.c uses > > glibc) > > but once you have generated the sequencer instructions, that is what is > > built > > into the kernel, not the tool (aicasm). > > It's very nice... Now one should have not only special kgcc to build the > kernel, but also the obsolete library with all the development stuff > installed... Is it sane? >
What I dunno is why the h... is needed to rebuild the code everytime you build a kernel. Just ship the ucode and remove the aicasm subtree from kernel. Perhaps mrproper makes things too clean, and just should leave there the sequencer code.
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Linux werewolf 2.4.2-ac11 #1 SMP Sat Mar 3 22:18:57 CET 2001 i686
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