On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 11:41:12AM -0700, Jordan Crouse wrote: > We've been doing a lot of hacking on buildrom lately. Thanks to everybody, > especially Ward and Myles. I wanted to take some time to discuss where > we are and particularly where we want to go. > > Here is where we are: > > * v2 support for 10 platforms (alix1c, db800, dbe61, ga-2761gxdk, m57sli, > msm800sev, norwich, serengeti_cheetah, tyan-s2882 and tyan-s2891).
And adding new platforms is not very difficult. > * gPXE: Ward is taking the lead on this r70 now has gPXE payload support; it does not work yet though because the gPXE tree is in flux, and (for the moment) no longer has LinuxBIOS support. > * buildroot/firmware_linux/etc: I'm still interested in partnering with > other build systems in an effort to better scale support for LAB > payloads. That would be great. I'm not sure what the best way forward is here though; seems like the major distros have each taken a somewhat separate path here. > * Optimizations: There are always things we can do to clean up - add -j N > support for make, reduce memory usage, avoid stupid gmake tricks and the > like. I think things are stable enough in the core that we can start to > twist some knobs without blowing everything up. There's some other stuff that would be nice: - aborting the build nicely when the generated image is too large - support for different rom chip sizes (in kconfig) - do something about the patching of LinuxBIOS Config files We talked about some of this before on IRC; I seem to recall Jordan's feeling was that the last 2 points would be easier under v3. Should we focus our efforts there for these improvements? Thanks, Ward. -- Ward Vandewege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software Foundation - Senior System Administrator -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
