--- Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote:
> Etienne Lorrain <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > So this patch create a file script/gzcopy.c and Makefile
> > rules to produce script/gzcopy which can be use to view,
> > change (set/append/prepend) comment to GZIP files.
> > ...
> > This patch also contains the simple script/gzparam.c file
> > and its Makefile rules - that is a simple standalone
> > program to display a text line on stdout containing the
> > base pattern to generate the GZIP comment itself for
> > this configured kernel.
>
> Those sound like things which should be distributed in
> the gzip package, not in the kernel source tree?
The file script/gzparam.c is only related to GZIP by the
fact that the text line printed on stdout will be inserted
into the linux.kgz file as a GZIP comment, it has nothing to
do with the GZIP format itself.
If you make and execute this gzparam manually, you will
see a line (depending on .config) printed on stdout like:
min_gujin_version=0x102 maskcpu=0x800000F0 maskDflags=0x021 \
loadadr=0x100000 maskvesa=0x...
gzparam means: kernel parameters to be inserted in the
comment line of the GZIP kernel file - to get a linux.kgz
The file script/gzcopy.c would be better distributed in a
GZIP package if there was one such package and everybody
upgrades this package before trying to compile the kernel.
But that file can also be considered as a better way than
using a script with sed/awk/cut/cat - its basic use is a
single string manipulation (initialise and concatenate
text strings - and insert it in a file at a defined offset).
This utility is not made to evolve at all, and is so simple
it does not worth bothering - a bit like:
Linux/arch/i386/boot/tools/build.c .
Note that I also send a message to jloup at the GZIP
homepage, but I am not sure I want to add another dependency
on GZIP package to build the kernel.
Etienne.
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