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Michael Witten 3773b45407 README: Remove sporadic tabs
Indentation was already done mainly with spaces, so this commit
removes the tabs and makes some of the whitespace more consistent.

Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-04-17 10:23:33 +02:00
Michael Witten 7f65e924c0 README: Consolidate discussions of -stable patches
The nature of the patches for the -stable kernels was discussed
twice; this commit consolidates those discussions into one
paragraph.

Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-04-17 10:23:32 +02:00
Michael Witten c072c3f0e1 README: Capitalize start of sentence
Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-04-17 10:23:32 +02:00
Michael Witten 88f7a642cf README: More consistent and readable white space
Mainly, this just separates paragraphs, so that the text is easier
on the eyes.

Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-04-17 10:23:32 +02:00
Michael Witten 6d12760c9f README: `Alternately' -> `Alternatively'
Also, one `Alternate' was changed to `Alternative' for the
sake of consistency.

Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-04-17 10:23:32 +02:00
Michael Witten a6144bb9e7 README: Better comma usage
For the most part, this commit simply introduces commas to
offset modifiers.

Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-04-17 10:23:32 +02:00
Michael Witten a20e3a795b README: Grammar: `me has' -> `I have'
Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-04-17 10:23:31 +02:00
Michael Witten 5b4285fbd4 README: Use `X' and `x' consistently
The text referred to `XX', when only a single `X' actually
existed, so this commit changes it to just `X'; a similar
change has been made for `xx'.

Also, `N' was used when it would have been more consistent
to use `X' again, so this commit replaces `N' with `X'.

This commit also chooses to leave `X' as the placeholder
for the current version of the source, and then makes `x'
the placeholder for any version number; fortunately nothing
really depends on this subtlety being understood.

Because `x' is already being used when discussing version
numbers, this commit changes such filename references as
`xxx.rej' to `some-file-name.rej'.

Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-04-17 10:23:31 +02:00
Jesper Juhl 0466dcbeda Update version number references in README
When 3.0 is released I believe the README should reflect the new
numbering.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-01 13:25:34 -07:00
Tracey Dent cddb5de053 Readme: Add architecture
Add Tilera Tile architecture to the list of the architectures
that Linux at least runs on.

Signed-off-by: Tracey Dent <tdent48227@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
2011-02-23 11:31:22 -05:00
Andrea Gelmini b3235fe420 README: cite nconfig
Signed-off-by: Andrea Gelmini <andrea.gelmini@gelma.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-10-13 11:36:24 +02:00
Patrick Ringl b2d8993026 README: fix misleading pointer to the defconf directory
Signed-off-by: Patrick Ringl <patrick_@freenet.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2009-06-14 22:20:27 +02:00
Markus Heidelberg 590a585729 kconfig: add a note about the deps to the 'silentoldconfig' help
Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-06-09 22:37:46 +02:00
Li Zefan ad444684b7 README: fix a wrong filename
It should be Documentation/build/kconfig.txt.

Introduced by commit 2af238e455
("kbuild: make *config usage docs").

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-20 17:57:49 -08:00
Randy Dunlap 2af238e455 kbuild: make *config usage docs
Create a kconfig user assistance guide, with a few tips and hints
about using menuconfig, xconfig, and gconfig.

Mostly contains user interface, environment variables, and search topics,
along with mini.config/custom.config usage.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-01-02 20:43:25 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg 6840999b19 x86: simplify "make ARCH=x86" and fix kconfig all.config
Simplify "make ARCH=x86" and fix kconfig so we again can set 64BIT in
all.config.

For a fix the diffstat is nice:
 6 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)

The patch reverts these commits:
 - 0f855aa64b ("kconfig: add helper to set
   config symbol from environment variable")
 - 2a113281f5 ("kconfig: use $K64BIT to
   set 64BIT with all*config targets")

Roman Zippel pointed out that kconfig supported string compares so
the additional complexity introduced by the above two patches were
not needed.

With this patch we have following behaviour:

  # make {allno,allyes,allmod,rand}config [ARCH=...]
  option \ host arch      | 32bit         | 64bit
  =====================================================
  ./.                     | 32bit         | 64bit
  ARCH=x86                | 32bit         | 32bit
  ARCH=i386               | 32bit         | 32bit
  ARCH=x86_64             | 64bit         | 64bit

The general rule are that ARCH= and native architecture takes
precedence over the configuration.

So make ARCH=i386 [whatever] will always build a 32-bit kernel
no matter what the configuration says.  The configuration will
be updated to 32-bit if it was configured to 64-bit and the
other way around.

This behaviour is consistent with previous behaviour so no
suprises here.

make ARCH=x86 will per default result in a 32-bit kernel but as
the only ARCH= value x86 allow the user to select between 32-bit
and 64-bit using menuconfig.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Andreas Herrmann <aherrman@arcor.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-17 08:35:43 -08:00
Sam Ravnborg 2a113281f5 kconfig: use $K64BIT to set 64BIT with all*config targets
The variable K64BIT can now be used to select the
value of CONFIG_64BIT.

This is for example useful for powerpc to generate
allmodconfig for both bit sizes - like this:
make ARCH=powerpc K64BIT=y
make ARCH=powerpc K64BIT=n

To use this the Kconfig file must use "64BIT" as the
config value to select between 32 and 64 bit.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
2007-11-12 21:02:20 +01:00
Jesper Juhl 3171470565 Remove duplicate listing of Cris arch from README
Mikael Pettersson pointed out to me that a recent patch of mine (commit
620034c84d), that made some corrections to the
README file, accidentally listed the Cris architecture twice.  Whoops.

This patch removes the duplicate.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2007-02-17 20:07:02 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 99ddcc7edb Change Linus' email address too
This changes a few mentions of my email address to point to the new one,
leaving things like old copyright messages alone.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-23 14:22:35 -08:00
Jesper Juhl 620034c84d [PATCH] A few small additions and corrections to README
Here's a small patch which

 - adds a few archs to the current list of supported platforms.
 - adds a few missing slashes at the end of URLs.
 - adds a few references to additional documentation.
 - adds "make config" to the list of possible configuration targets.
 - makes a few other minor changes.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
[ Ben Nizette <ben.nizette@iinet.net.au> points out AVR32 arch too ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-06 16:41:21 -08:00
Randy Dunlap 9dfb563b07 [PATCH] config: update usage/help info
Replace outdated help message with a reference to README.  Update README
for make *config variants and environment variable info.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-19 09:13:52 -07:00
Håkon Løvdal 2b422383c3 README: bzip2 is not new
From: Håkon Løvdal <Hakon.Lovdal@ericsson.com>

Signed-off-by: Håkon Løvdal <Hakon.Lovdal@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-03-20 20:32:04 +01:00
Xose Vazquez Perez 4f4e2dc3ce [PATCH] README updated
Replace old information with newer from kernel.org

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-16 23:26:01 -08:00
Andrew Morton a136564702 [PATCH] remove gcc-2 checks
Remove various things which were checking for gcc-1.x and gcc-2.x compilers.

From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

    Some documentation updates and removes some code paths for gcc < 3.2.

Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:14:02 -08:00
Jesper Juhl 6ad44229ec [PATCH] README: add info about -stable to README and point at applying-patches.txt
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-13 18:14:17 -08:00
Horms b39f72fef2 [PATCH] README doesn't mention bzip2 source tarball
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:27 -08:00
Randy Dunlap e3fc4cc17a [PATCH] corrections to top-level README
Corrections to the recent top-level README changes.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-22 22:17:35 -07:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso f875a1a665 [PATCH] README update from the stone age
We have no options which the user can set in the Makefile.  Only the
EXTRAVERSION, which is also useful in place of the "backup modules"
suggestion.

We don't have configuration options in the top Makefile.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-21 10:11:55 -07:00
Kurt Wall 896e5518da [PATCH] Add text for dealing with "dot releases" to README
The emergence of so-called "dot releases" that are non-incremental patches
against a base kernel requires different handling of patches (revert
previous patches before applying the newest one).  This patch adds a
paragrach to $TOPDIR/README explaining how to do deal with dot release
patches.

Signed-off-by: Kurt Wall <kwall@kurtwerks.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27 16:26:09 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00