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 <t

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>

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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 <c

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>

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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>

README: fix misleading pointer to the defconf directory

Signed-off-by: Patrick Ringl <patrick_@freenet.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

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>

README: fix a wrong filename

It should be Documentation/build/kconfig.txt.

Introduced by commit 2af238e455ef5fd31c2f7a06c2db3f13d843b9bf
("kbuild: make *config usage docs").

Signed-off-by: Li Zefa

README: fix a wrong filename

It should be Documentation/build/kconfig.txt.

Introduced by commit 2af238e455ef5fd31c2f7a06c2db3f13d843b9bf
("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>

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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

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>

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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 insert

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:
- 0f855aa64b3f63d35a891510cf7db932a435c116 ("kconfig: add helper to set
config symbol from environment variable")
- 2a113281f5cd2febbab21a93c8943f8d3eece4d3 ("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>

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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 fo

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>

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Remove duplicate listing of Cris arch from README

Mikael Pettersson pointed out to me that a recent patch of mine (commit
620034c84d1d939717bdfbe02c51a3fee43541c3), that made some corrections to the

Remove duplicate listing of Cris arch from README

Mikael Pettersson pointed out to me that a recent patch of mine (commit
620034c84d1d939717bdfbe02c51a3fee43541c3), 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>

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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@li

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>

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[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.

[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>

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[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

[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>

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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: A

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>

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[PATCH] README updated

Replace old information with newer from kernel.org

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[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 pat

[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>

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[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: Linu

[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>

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[PATCH] README doesn't mention bzip2 source tarball

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[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-of

[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>

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[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'

[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>

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[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 (re

[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>

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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

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!

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