> On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 11:29:27AM -0700, Jordan Crouse wrote: > > > I think it's more important to figure out how we really want to > configure > > > LinuxBIOS (it seems to be a large hurdle for newbies), not buildrom. > > > > Agreed - being able to do these things easily with v3 is a priority. > > We have to think about what we would want to control externally, and > then > > make those knobs easy to turn. > > Isn't that easy in v3 already? You just use / modify defconfig files as > with the kernel.
>From my point of view, modifying defconfig files from buildrom is not that easy. Very small changes frequently require you to run make oldconfig so that you can handle all of the options that were not set, but now need to be set because you changed an option. Maybe there is a good way to do hierarchical make menuconfig, but then you get the problem that the sources haven't been downloaded yet when you are configuring buildrom. That said, I haven't used v3 yet. It seems like in the current state, the addition of new options (a new form of compression, for instance) in v3's config files might require patching all of the .config files in buildrom. That doesn't seem nice. I'm just hoping that when v3 supports the platforms I'm interested in it will be easy for buildrom to select which images to include and do some rudimentary calculations to see if they'll fit in the ROM. Thanks, Myles PS If I'm overlooking the obvious, easy ways to do things I'm all ears. It's easy to end up doing things the hard way if you don't know what the easy way is. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
