On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 3:50 AM, Gerd Hoffmann <[email protected]> wrote: > On 05/18/12 05:16, Kevin O'Connor wrote: >> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 12:46:21PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >>> Almost every linux distro has iasl packaged these days. >>> Lets make it a build dependency and stop the hassle we >>> have with updating the *.hex files in the git repo. >> >> I'm a bit torn on this. I see the gain in that it simplifies the >> build and makes patches smaller. > > Patch conflicts in the generated files are a pain too. > >> It also allows include files (eg, >> config.h) to be pulled into the asl code so that symbolic names can be >> shared. Iasl is easily available from most distros, but it isn't >> installed by default. I don't want to scare off any casual users that >> download the git tree and attempt to compile. > > We can detect iasl and print a friendly message in case it isn't there, > see attached patch. Comments?
I agree. Thanks for the patch. > > And, yes, we probably want move them to out/ as suggested by Marc in > case we'll go that route. > > cheers, > Gerd > > _______________________________________________ > SeaBIOS mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.seabios.org/mailman/listinfo/seabios > -- http://se-eng.com _______________________________________________ SeaBIOS mailing list [email protected] http://www.seabios.org/mailman/listinfo/seabios
