On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 11:01:17AM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 05 August 2008 09:24:10 Steve Dickson wrote: > > Chuck Ebbert wrote: > > > Steve Dickson wrote: > > >> Now that devel kernels rpms require the kernel-firmware rpm, it makes > > >> sense to me that one should be able to build both of them at the same > > >> time. So this patch adds the "--with firmware" build option > > >> which will allow kernel-firmware rpms to built with kernel rpms. > > >> > > >> This patch also adds the "--without vdso_install" build option > > >> which stop the VDSO binaries from being installed. This cuts > > >> down the overall build time especially when you build over NFS > > >> like I do.. > > >> Signed-Off-By: Steve Dickson <steved@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > With one small change we can still support --without firmware. That way > > > the default behavior can be overridden in either case. See below... > > > > Sure.. that works... Is there an ETA for these two changes? > > I don't quite follow how the firmware change is supposed to work... The > firmware is currently supposed to be a noarch package, and it gets built in > the same pass as the kernel-docs sub-package, so it *shouldn't* be built in > the same pass as the kernel. Is this flag to simply override that and build > the firmware as an arch-specific package for simplified one-off builds? > You bring up a pretty good point here Jarod, what happens with firmware for arch-specific drivers? The Makefile rules will have to be written in such a way that it gets built into the package despite the CONFIG_* symbol being unset on the build arch. r, Kyle _______________________________________________ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
