ld
Link target. Often, LDFLAGS_$@ is used to set specific options to ld.
- objcopy
- Copy binary. Uses OBJCOPYFLAGS usually specified in
- arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile.
- OBJCOPYFLAGS_$@ may be used to set additional options.
-
- gzip
- Compress target. Use maximum compression to compress target.
-
Example:
#arch/x86/boot/Makefile
LDFLAGS_bootsect := -Ttext 0x0 -s --oformat binary
resulting in the target file being recompiled for no
obvious reason.
+ objcopy
+ Copy binary. Uses OBJCOPYFLAGS usually specified in
+ arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile.
+ OBJCOPYFLAGS_$@ may be used to set additional options.
+
+ gzip
+ Compress target. Use maximum compression to compress target.
+
+ Example:
+ #arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
+ $(obj)/vmlinux.bin.gz: $(vmlinux.bin.all-y) FORCE
+ $(call if_changed,gzip)
+
dtc
Create flattened device tree blob object suitable for linking
into vmlinux. Device tree blobs linked into vmlinux are placed
that may be shared between individual architectures.
The recommended approach how to use a generic header file is
to list the file in the Kbuild file.
- See "7.3 generic-y" for further info on syntax etc.
+ See "7.2 generic-y" for further info on syntax etc.
--- 6.11 Post-link pass
arch/<arch>/include/asm/ to list asm files coming from asm-generic.
See subsequent chapter for the syntax of the Kbuild file.
- --- 7.1 no-export-headers
+--- 7.1 no-export-headers
no-export-headers is essentially used by include/uapi/linux/Kbuild to
avoid exporting specific headers (e.g. kvm.h) on architectures that do
not support it. It should be avoided as much as possible.
- --- 7.2 generic-y
+--- 7.2 generic-y
If an architecture uses a verbatim copy of a header from
include/asm-generic then this is listed in the file
Example: termios.h
#include <asm-generic/termios.h>
- --- 7.3 generated-y
+--- 7.3 generated-y
If an architecture generates other header files alongside generic-y
wrappers, generated-y specifies them.
#arch/x86/include/asm/Kbuild
generated-y += syscalls_32.h
- --- 7.5 mandatory-y
+--- 7.4 mandatory-y
mandatory-y is essentially used by include/uapi/asm-generic/Kbuild.asm
to define the minimum set of headers that must be exported in