sched: remove long deprecated CLONE_STOPPED flag

[linux-2.6.git] / README

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@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ ON WHAT HARDWARE DOES IT RUN?
   today Linux also runs on (at least) the Compaq Alpha AXP, Sun SPARC and
   UltraSPARC, Motorola 68000, PowerPC, PowerPC64, ARM, Hitachi SuperH, Cell,
   IBM S/390, MIPS, HP PA-RISC, Intel IA-64, DEC VAX, AMD x86-64, AXIS CRIS,
-  Cris, Xtensa, AVR32 and Renesas M32R architectures.
+  Xtensa, AVR32 and Renesas M32R architectures.
 
   Linux is easily portable to most general-purpose 32- or 64-bit architectures
   as long as they have a paged memory management unit (PMMU) and a port of the
@@ -52,11 +52,11 @@ DOCUMENTATION:
 
  - The Documentation/DocBook/ subdirectory contains several guides for
    kernel developers and users.  These guides can be rendered in a
-   number of formats:  PostScript (.ps), PDF, and HTML, among others.
-   After installation, "make psdocs", "make pdfdocs", or "make htmldocs"
-   will render the documentation in the requested format.
+   number of formats:  PostScript (.ps), PDF, HTML, & man-pages, among others.
+   After installation, "make psdocs", "make pdfdocs", "make htmldocs",
+   or "make mandocs" will render the documentation in the requested format.
 
-INSTALLING the kernel:
+INSTALLING the kernel source:
 
  - If you install the full sources, put the kernel tarball in a
    directory where you have permissions (eg. your home directory) and
@@ -166,6 +166,7 @@ CONFIGURING the kernel:
  - Alternate configuration commands are:
        "make config"      Plain text interface.
        "make menuconfig"  Text based color menus, radiolists & dialogs.
+       "make nconfig"     Enhanced text based color menus.
        "make xconfig"     X windows (Qt) based configuration tool.
        "make gconfig"     X windows (Gtk) based configuration tool.
        "make oldconfig"   Default all questions based on the contents of
@@ -174,8 +175,17 @@ CONFIGURING the kernel:
        "make silentoldconfig"
                           Like above, but avoids cluttering the screen
                           with questions already answered.
+                          Additionally updates the dependencies.
        "make defconfig"   Create a ./.config file by using the default
-                          symbol values from arch/$ARCH/defconfig.
+                          symbol values from either arch/$ARCH/defconfig
+                          or arch/$ARCH/configs/${PLATFORM}_defconfig,
+                          depending on the architecture.
+       "make ${PLATFORM}_defconfig"
+                         Create a ./.config file by using the default
+                         symbol values from
+                         arch/$ARCH/configs/${PLATFORM}_defconfig.
+                         Use "make help" to get a list of all available
+                         platforms of your architecture.
        "make allyesconfig"
                           Create a ./.config file by setting symbol
                           values to 'y' as much as possible.
@@ -187,14 +197,9 @@ CONFIGURING the kernel:
        "make randconfig"  Create a ./.config file by setting symbol
                           values to random values.
 
-   The allyesconfig/allmodconfig/allnoconfig/randconfig variants can
-   also use the environment variable KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG to specify a
-   filename that contains config options that the user requires to be
-   set to a specific value.  If KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG=filename is not used,
-   "make *config" checks for a file named "all{yes/mod/no/random}.config"
-   for symbol values that are to be forced.  If this file is not found,
-   it checks for a file named "all.config" to contain forced values.
-   
+   You can find more information on using the Linux kernel config tools
+   in Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt.
+
        NOTES on "make config":
        - having unnecessary drivers will make the kernel bigger, and can
          under some circumstances lead to problems: probing for a
@@ -231,6 +236,19 @@ COMPILING the kernel:
  - If you configured any of the parts of the kernel as `modules', you
    will also have to do "make modules_install".
 
+ - Verbose kernel compile/build output:
+
+   Normally the kernel build system runs in a fairly quiet mode (but not
+   totally silent).  However, sometimes you or other kernel developers need
+   to see compile, link, or other commands exactly as they are executed.
+   For this, use "verbose" build mode.  This is done by inserting
+   "V=1" in the "make" command.  E.g.:
+
+       make V=1 all
+
+   To have the build system also tell the reason for the rebuild of each
+   target, use "V=2".  The default is "V=0".
+
  - Keep a backup kernel handy in case something goes wrong.  This is 
    especially true for the development releases, since each new release
    contains new code which has not been debugged.  Make sure you keep a
@@ -278,8 +296,8 @@ IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG:
    the file MAINTAINERS to see if there is a particular person associated
    with the part of the kernel that you are having trouble with. If there
    isn't anyone listed there, then the second best thing is to mail
-   them to me (torvalds@osdl.org), and possibly to any other relevant
-   mailing-list or to the newsgroup.
+   them to me (torvalds@linux-foundation.org), and possibly to any other
+   relevant mailing-list or to the newsgroup.
 
  - In all bug-reports, *please* tell what kernel you are talking about,
    how to duplicate the problem, and what your setup is (use your common