Re: Compiling a kernel for ibm z50

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 06:19:51PM +0100, oski wrote:

> This is my set up:
> -An old Pentium II box with Redhat 8
> -Downloaded linux-2.6.13.mipscvs-20050904 from www.longlandclan...and bzip2
> and tar into /usr/src.
> -Installed the mipsel crosscompiler from MIPS SDE
> -After make config, when trying to make dep, I get a warning: make dep is
> unnecessary now.
> -Doing a ls arch/mips/boot I get a file called "compressed" with only a
> folder called "CVS" .

That's because who made that tarball didn't know his way around CVS enough
to supply a -P option.  Nothing to worry, just extra clutter.

  Ralf