Re: [LinuxBIOS] r77 - in buildrom-devel: . config/payloads config/platforms packages/linuxbios

[Myles Watson]

> > Modified: buildrom-devel/Config.in
> >
> > --- buildrom-devel/Config.in	2007-12-05 23:27:08 UTC (rev 76)
> > +++ buildrom-devel/Config.in	2007-12-06 16:18:18 UTC (rev 77)
> > @@ -43,6 +43,23 @@
> >
> > menu "LinuxBIOS configuration"
> >
> > +config LINUXBIOS_V3
> > bool "Use LinuxBIOSv3"
> > depends ADVANCED
> > default n
> > help
> >  Use the v3 tree.  LinuxBIOSv3 doesn't support all platforms yet.
> >
> > +config LINUXBIOS_V3_LGDT_PATCH
> > bool "Avoid an error in stage0_i586 with some compilers"
> > depends LINUXBIOS_V3
> > default n
> > help
> >  Say 'y' here to use the patch from the mailing list to replace
> >  "data32  lgdt %cs:gdtptr" with
> >  "movl $gdtptr"
> >      "%ebx lgdt %cs:(%bx)"
> >
> > config USE_LZMA
> >    bool "Enable LZMA compression"
> >    depends !PAYLOAD_OFW
>
> While I welcome almost everything in that patch, I dislike that part.
> Either we agree on some code sequence that works for everyone or we mark
> some compilers "broken".

I like the "code sequence that works for everyone" thought.  That's more of
a LinuxBIOSv3 issue than a buildrom issue, though.  I'd hoped to make people
happy by not applying the patch by default.

Myles