| 1 Aug 2025 |
 emily | but I take what I can get | 12:41:54 |
| emily | (x86 doesn't use it btw) | 12:43:30 |
 dramforever | yeah bzImage will be here forever | 12:43:54 |
| dramforever | ready to ask you to use a bootloader | 12:44:09 |
| emily | the reason I am not just using the actual target names is because .uefi should be bzImage or vmlinuz.efi and .legacy should be bzImage or zImage or etc. | 12:44:26 |
| emily | but that means I have to make decisions about platforms I know little about and it's annoying | 12:44:45 |
| dramforever | i remember there's some nonsense in the loongarch64 make target names | 12:45:11 |
| dramforever | in the most infuriating way possible | 12:45:29 |
| dramforever | or was it just the file name | 12:45:49 |
| emily | they have vmlinux.elf | 12:46:01 |
| emily | which is not vmlinux | 12:46:02 |
| emily | it's irrelevant though since they're vmlinuz.efi all the way, so they're one of the arches that are my friend | 12:46:17 |
| emily | no intention of adding non-UEFI to things we didn't already support it ofr | 12:46:34 |
| emily | * no intention of adding non-UEFI to things we didn't already support it for | 12:46:35 |
| dramforever | oh thank fuck they unfucked it (iiuc) https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/426834 | 12:47:12 |
| 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 |
