Robert Millan wrote: > On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 01:32:29PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Attached patch makes it possible to build modules externally, by: >> >> - Installing headers in system include dir. >> >> - Exporting two ABI tags (a build-time macro and a run-time variable) >> for run-time comparison. >> >> - Exporting a makefile with COMMON_*FLAGS variables. > > Looks like I missed some important details. The headers and some macros are > not enough, as we need to reproduce part of the build system to build a module > externally. This new patch provides the following:
Interesting idea. However how do you define GRUB ABI :) ? What is it, kernel, certain set of modules, or how :) ? Versioning of the modules would be a good idea indeed to make sure mismatched modules are not tried together. _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
