VIA EPIA - Trying to get it built

[BIOS Support Personnel]

OK, I'm finally diving into this, thanks to Andrew Ip LinuxBIOS for the VIA 
EPIA board is close to where I need it to be.

Now, I'm looking to help.

I've run into my first set of problems....

I used the K7SEM HOWTO for some of the info since there isn't a VIA EPIA 
HOWTO yet.

Am I supposed to patch the kernel for VIA EPIA?

Errors:
When I run make I get:
gcc ... -o version.o /.../freebios/src/lib/version.c
/.../freebios/src/lib/version.c:10:2: #error MAINBOARD_VENDOR not defined
/.../freebios/src/lib/version.c:13:2: #error MAINBOARD_PART_NUMBER not 
defined
make: *** [version.o] Error 1

So, I tried to fix this by putting "#define MAINBOARD_VENDOR "via"" and 
"#define MAINBOARD_PART_NUMBER "epia"" into /.../freebios/src/lib/version.c. 
This takes care of the compiler error. Where should these defines be made?

Again, I run make and get "make: *** No rule to make target 
'.../freebios/mainboard.c', needed by 'mainboard.o'. Stop.

I see that mainboard is in Makefile, so what's the problem.

[Ronald G. Minnich]

On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, BIOS Support Personnel wrote:
> gcc ... -o version.o /.../freebios/src/lib/version.c
> /.../freebios/src/lib/version.c:10:2: #error MAINBOARD_VENDOR not defined
> /.../freebios/src/lib/version.c:13:2: #error MAINBOARD_PART_NUMBER not 
> defined
> make: *** [version.o] Error 1

these should never be put into the .c file (e.g. version.c) since this 
code compiles for 50 or so mainboards.

Rather they should be defined in src/mainboard/via/epia/Config and I have 
added defines.

I would much prefer that these variables be created by the pathname of the 
mainboard, but there may be a reason to do it otherwise.
> Again, I run make and get "make: *** No rule to make target 
> '.../freebios/mainboard.c', needed by 'mainboard.o'. Stop.

that's weird. But there have been several changes lately so we'll have to 
do some looking around. Andrew, are you seeing this?

ron

[Andrew Ip]

> > Again, I run make and get "make: *** No rule to make target 
> > '.../freebios/mainboard.c', needed by 'mainboard.o'. Stop.
>
> that's weird. But there have been several changes lately so we'll have to 
> do some looking around. Andrew, are you seeing this?

I don't see this problem.

-Andrew