Steve M. Gehlbach wrote:
The documentation on config options is pretty sparce, mostly in the code itself. Look at the other config files (in
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freebios/src/mainboard/.../config.example and also in freebios/util/config/*), and of course, read the C code. I use a find/grep alias a lot to find config options and how they are used (alias findit='find . | xargs grep 2>/dev/null').
isn't it the same "grep -r XXX ."?!
We need more documentation for linuxbios; right now it is not a project where you can just type "make" and flash a rom without digging into the code a little (IMHO).
I understand. In the future, something like kernel's or lirc's config menus would be great.
WHy isn't the web-configuration tool working? Is it an outdated tool or do you only have to correctly configure cgi access?
The best bet if you don't want to spend some time on it, is to buy a board from cwlinux. And, of course, if you come up to speed and want to help out, I'm sure Ron would welcome a howto.html file.
my company had my request to buy few motherboard from cwlinux. However they like to write a lot of papers and to prepare budget reports for anything. I've already used cwlinux great ROM images, and I have a pcchips motherboard bought by myself in an exibition working with linuxbios. I'm very interested in this project and I would like to understand it and contribute, if possible.
Now I will dig a bit into the code and configuration samples. When I'll have enough knowledge I will try some experiments and I will write down some web pages on how to do it. Something like my other 'howto' about lirc ( http://www.manoweb.com/alesan/lirc ). I like good, detailed documentation and I hope to write something like this for my experience with linuxbios.
I invite everybody, if they can, to answer to the many questions I've written in the list. Each piece of information I can gather will find its way on the howto...!
bye! as