[PATCH] scripts/package: buildtar: Output as vmlinuz for riscv

Matt Coster Matt.Coster at imgtec.com
Tue Mar 26 09:13:45 PDT 2024


On 26/03/2024 15:41, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 8:59 PM Matt Coster <Matt.Coster at imgtec.com> wrote:
>>
>> From: Karolis Mituzas <karolis.mituzas at imgtec.com>
>>
>> This matches the behavior for arm64 [1] and prevents clobbering of
>> vmlinux-${KERNELRELEASE}.
> 
> What problem are you trying to solve?
> 
> Why is clobbering vmlinux-${KERNELRELEASE} a problem?
> 

This patch makes riscv tar*-pkg builds consistent with other
architectures. Clobbering vmlinux-${KERNELRELEASE} means there's no ELF
binary produced by tar*-pkg builds; sometimes you just need an ELF
binary, e.g. to run faddr2line.

Cheers,
Matt
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