kbuild, deb-pkg: support overriding userland architecture

[~andy/linux] / Documentation / kbuild / kbuild.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
index bb3bf38f03dac1e055dc973ce65d49d14defbe42..b146eb86e498089373ec0c14aaefcdb38920177d 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,17 @@
+Output files
+
+modules.order
+--------------------------------------------------
+This file records the order in which modules appear in Makefiles. This
+is used by modprobe to deterministically resolve aliases that match
+multiple modules.
+
+modules.builtin
+--------------------------------------------------
+This file lists all modules that are built into the kernel. This is used
+by modprobe to not fail when trying to load something builtin.
+
+
 Environment variables
 
 KCPPFLAGS
@@ -37,6 +51,14 @@ Specify the output directory when building the kernel.
 The output directory can also be specificed using "O=...".
 Setting "O=..." takes precedence over KBUILD_OUTPUT.
 
+KBUILD_DEBARCH
+--------------------------------------------------
+For the deb-pkg target, allows overriding the normal heuristics deployed by
+deb-pkg. Normally deb-pkg attempts to guess the right architecture based on
+the UTS_MACHINE variable, and on some architectures also the kernel config.
+The value of KBUILD_DEBARCH is assumed (not checked) to be a valid Debian
+architecture.
+
 ARCH
 --------------------------------------------------
 Set ARCH to the architecture to be built.
@@ -51,7 +73,7 @@ CROSS_COMPILE
 Specify an optional fixed part of the binutils filename.
 CROSS_COMPILE can be a part of the filename or the full path.
 
-CROSS_COMPILE is also used for ccache is some setups.
+CROSS_COMPILE is also used for ccache in some setups.
 
 CF
 --------------------------------------------------
@@ -148,3 +170,7 @@ For tags/TAGS/cscope targets, you can specify more than one arch
 to be included in the databases, separated by blank space. E.g.:
 
     $ make ALLSOURCE_ARCHS="x86 mips arm" tags
+
+To get all available archs you can also specify all. E.g.:
+
+    $ make ALLSOURCE_ARCHS=all tags