[RFC v6 01/21] um: split build in kernel and host parts

[Anton Ivanov]

On 24/09/2020 09:26, Hajime Tazaki wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 16:33:49 +0900,
> Anton Ivanov wrote:
> 
>>> The host build part has been implemented in tools/um so that we can
>>> reuse the available host build infrastructure.
>>>
>>> The patch also changes the UML build invocation, if before
>>>
>>>    $ make ARCH=um defconfig
>>>    $ make ARCH=um
>>>
>>> was generating the executable now this only generates the relocatable
>>> object.
>>
>> This will break packaging in all distributions. We need to figure out an alternative way which is backward compatible with their builds.
> 
> Hmm, I understand the situation.
> We may have to put additional steps after generating the relocatable
> object in arch/um/Makefile.

Cool.

I will go through the rest of the patches and if I notice something I will comment on specific ones.

Brgds,

> 
> -- Hajime
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