On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:50:37AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann 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?
Yes - if we have a very clear message to the user it's probably okay. -Kevin _______________________________________________ SeaBIOS mailing list [email protected] http://www.seabios.org/mailman/listinfo/seabios
