* Mathieu Deschamps mdeschamps@mangrove-systems.com [040409 15:53]:
I've read several documentation on LinuxBios and related projects, though I didn't find out a LinuxBios requirements "true" paper. I still have the 2.4.xx kernel compiling oriented slab that is to say : GNU Make 3.77, ECGS 1.1.2 (GCC 2.91.66), Binutils 2.10, util-linux 2.10.
egcs is pretty much outdated. I've been using: make-3.80-179 gcc-3.3.3-33 binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-30 util-linux-2.12-59 python-2.3.3-65
Also I had a quite old python version (1.1 or so), i got it updated to 2.2.3 when I've seen the python script insulted me while running buildtarget.
Anything older than 2.1 won't work.
What I try to say is that a REQUIEREMENTS file in the source tree LACKS, Maybe it lacks also in the site page (IMHO, the early page info should mention this)...
Maybe it would make sense to enhance the available LinuxBIOS on AMD64 document (freebios2/documentation/LinuxBIOS-AMD64.pdf) to contain information about the other ports as well. LinuxBIOS v2 does a great job unifying things.
Stefan