Tom Rini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 12:16:45PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
>
> > I think I may have a better idea. Let the default be a ? : name-valued
> > expression. So your format choice could look something like this:
> >
> > choices kernel_format
> > VMLINUX VMLINUZ IMAGE ZIMAGE BZIMAGE
> > default ((X86 or IA64 or SPARC) ? VMLINUZ : BZIMAGE)
>
> I don't know.... What about other defaults? If 'vmlinuz' == 'zImage',
> this might be OK, otherwise we'd need something like:
> choices kernel_format
> VMLINUX VMLINUZ IMAGE ZIMAGE BZIMAGE ZIMAGE.INITRD
> default ((X86 or IA64 or SPARC) ? VMLINUZ : (PPC) ? ZIMAGE : BZIMAGE)
> unless PPC suppress ZIMAGE.INITRD
>
> If I'm reading that right (and I don't know, wouldn't it be
> default ((IA64 or SPARC) ? VMLINUZ : BZIMAGE), ia64/sparc do vmlinuz,
> else bzImage).
I'm not understanding your objection. Is it to the specific rule above,
or the proposed mechanism?
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