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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/kbuild')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt | 15 |
3 files changed, 28 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt index 1e5165aa9e4..4a990317b84 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt @@ -73,6 +73,14 @@ Specify the output directory when building the kernel. The output directory can also be specified using "O=...". Setting "O=..." takes precedence over KBUILD_OUTPUT. +KBUILD_DEBARCH +-------------------------------------------------- +For the deb-pkg target, allows overriding the normal heuristics deployed by +deb-pkg. Normally deb-pkg attempts to guess the right architecture based on +the UTS_MACHINE variable, and on some architectures also the kernel config. +The value of KBUILD_DEBARCH is assumed (not checked) to be a valid Debian +architecture. + ARCH -------------------------------------------------- Set ARCH to the architecture to be built. diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt index 2fe93ca7c77..b507d61fd41 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt @@ -112,7 +112,6 @@ applicable everywhere (see syntax). (no prompts anywhere) and for symbols with no dependencies. That will limit the usefulness but on the other hand avoid the illegal configurations all over. - kconfig should one day warn about such things. - numerical ranges: "range" <symbol> <symbol> ["if" <expr>] This allows to limit the range of possible input values for int @@ -268,7 +267,7 @@ separate list of options. choices: - "choice" + "choice" [symbol] <choice options> <choice block> "endchoice" @@ -282,6 +281,10 @@ single driver can be compiled/loaded into the kernel, but all drivers can be compiled as modules. A choice accepts another option "optional", which allows to set the choice to 'n' and no entry needs to be selected. +If no [symbol] is associated with a choice, then you can not have multiple +definitions of that choice. If a [symbol] is associated to the choice, +then you may define the same choice (ie. with the same entries) in another +place. comment: diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt index 0ef00bd6e54..86e3cd0d26a 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt @@ -1136,6 +1136,21 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly): resulting in the target file being recompiled for no obvious reason. + dtc + Create flattend device tree blob object suitable for linking + into vmlinux. Device tree blobs linked into vmlinux are placed + in an init section in the image. Platform code *must* copy the + blob to non-init memory prior to calling unflatten_device_tree(). + + Example: + #arch/x86/platform/ce4100/Makefile + clean-files := *dtb.S + + DTC_FLAGS := -p 1024 + obj-y += foo.dtb.o + + $(obj)/%.dtb: $(src)/%.dts + $(call cmd,dtc) --- 6.7 Custom kbuild commands |