| 1 Aug 2025 |
 emily | the Linux "installation scripts" are very silly and pointless | 12:47:44 |
| emily | I am literally replacing them with cp | 12:47:48 |
| emily | oh this is recent | 12:48:14 |
| emily | I don't understand why this says "so that we don't have to maintain some postInstall logic for LoongArch." but then deletes nothing | 12:48:38 |
| emily | Use the generic script/install.sh to perform the make install operation.
This will automatically generate the initrd file and modify the grub.cfg
without manual intervention (The previous kernel image, config file and
System.map will also be generated), similar to other architectures.
imagine running a kernel make install and having it modify your bootloader configuration
| 12:49:16 |
 dramforever | idk i haven't checked the actual pr | 12:49:57 |
| dramforever | i think linux make install is just a very concerning thing in general | 12:51:10 |
| dramforever | like it has different behavior depending on if your current distro is rpm or deb or something | 12:51:33 |
| emily | yeah and there are arch-specific scripts that all do more or less the same thing but in subtly different annoying ways | 12:52:18 |
| emily | have you seen our preInstall | 12:52:34 |
| emily | I am deleting all of that | 12:52:43 |
 Alyssa Ross | I tried to refactor it a long time ago to always use KBUILD_IMAGE but it got reverted because it broke MIPS or POWER or something | 12:53:13 |
| emily | my WIP just uses cp | 12:53:31 |
| emily | because if you trace down all the installation scripts all they do is cp $(KBUILD_IMAGE) | 12:53:42 |
| emily | like I don't even make install, at all | 12:53:52 |
