Hm.
Why is that not in the README then? Maybe it is somehow clear to all you LBers, but for someone new, the documentation is *extremely* misleading. The tool itself says:
printf("Done, you can move the file to the LinuxBios tree now.\n");
That implies that it will just work. The resulting source also admonishes the user:
"/* This file was generated by getpir.c, do not modify! \n (but if you do, please run checkpir on it to verify)\n",
which even implies more that it should "just work".
If the few sentences you wrote, and those of Stefan were in the README, much less confusion would exist.
On 12/19/06, Li-Ta Lo ollie@lanl.gov wrote:
On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 17:17 -0500, Jon Dufresne wrote:
In that case this utility program is very misleading, at least to me. Perhaps a large comment should be added to the .c file that either gives a warning that it is incomplete or tips on what to add.
There is no way for the utility to know if it is generating something useful. There is zero intelligence in the utility and it just dumps whatever it is in the memory in a human and compiler readable form. This is a totally use at your own risk thing.
Ollie
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