Re: [PATCH] add diffconfig utility

2008-06-12 Thread Sam Ravnborg
Hi Tim. The program is also now better structured, IMHO. -- Tim Seeing this programs gets frequent updates (good!) I have not yet applied it. When you consider it stabilized could you please drop me a new mail including full changelog and updated patch. And please cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] +

Re: cross-compiling alternatives (was Re: [PATCH 0/1] Embedded Maintainer(s)...)

2008-06-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:50 AM, David Woodhouse wrote: On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 08:23 -0700, Tim Bird wrote: Rob Landley wrote: However, having one or more full-time engineers devoted to debugging cross-compile issues is quite a high price to pay too. Moore's law really doesn't help that

Re: cross-compiling alternatives (was Re: [PATCH 0/1] Embedded Maintainer(s)...)

2008-06-12 Thread Tim Bird
David Woodhouse wrote: ... fixing them in the upstream packages (or in the autoconf system itself). Once someone fixes the cross-compilation issues for a package, they usually stay fixed, if the fixes are mainlined. I don't think that's true, unfortunately. Autoconf makes it _easy_ to do

Re: cross-compiling alternatives (was Re: [PATCH 0/1] Embedded Maintainer(s)...)

2008-06-12 Thread Bill Gatliff
Guys: If you opt to cross-compile, having to deal with those sorts of things is the price you pay. If the build system derives from autoconf, then a hacked-up config.cache (or equivalent command-line args) often solves problems for me. Just give the cache the answers that it would otherwise

Re: [PATCH 0/1] Embedded Maintainer(s), [EMAIL PROTECTED] list

2008-06-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Tim Bird wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: Er, is that GPL or LGPL code that you're modifying? If so, you *have* to push those code changes out (make them available to others), whether you think people will be interested or not! umm, not really. only if (1) he

Re: Kernel boot problem on IXP422 Rev. A

2008-06-12 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 17:28 -0400, Glenn Henshaw wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Marcus Tangermann wrote: we currently try to boot a 2.6.21 kernel time to upgrade Wrong answer!!! Many embedded devices can't upgrade kernels easily because of customer requirements and

Re: [PATCH 0/1] Embedded Maintainer(s), [EMAIL PROTECTED] list

2008-06-12 Thread Jim Freeman
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 05:46:42PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 5:42 PM, James Chapman wrote: David VomLehn wrote: Amen, brother. I'm fortunate in that I work for an organization that is quite good about enforcing code reviews, specifically, the QA organization is

override an interrupt handler?

2008-06-12 Thread Wang, Baojun
hi, In my application I want to override the timer interrupt, and I'm doing in this manner: disable_irq(0); /* disable timer irq first */ free_irq(0, NULL); /* free the old irq */ setup_irq(0, new_irq0); setup_irq() return with 0, however I got the

Re: Cross Compiler and loads of issues

2008-06-12 Thread Robert Schwebel
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:52:44PM +0500, Shaz wrote: I have been following Re: [PATCH 0/1] Embedded Maintainer(s) and felt like asking that is there one good way to get a cross compiler work. I tried buildroot, scratchbox and even openMoko with openEmbedded but all of them had lots of issues