V2 dependency problems

ron minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Tue Nov 25 12:47:00 CET 2003


On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Dave Ashley wrote:

> The auto.c file has #includes for things like raminit.c. If I change
> the auto.c file and rebuild, the changes "take". If I change raminit.c,
> the changes don't take. I have to touch the auto.c to get it to work. Does
> everyone have this problem?
> 
> I do
> cd targets ; ./buildtarget via/epiam

This is a known problem, we probably need to do a makedepend on auto.c 
when we make the makefile.

> One other note that I kind of recall being discussed. I cloned the vt8231
> directory to make the vt8235 directory, but a lot of the separate pci devices
> that are inside both devices are identical. Isn't there some way of separating
> out the support code for the individual components maybe based on the pci
> device id's? This would avoid code duplication.

not sure. I don't want to go too far with this; we're trying to avoid 
putting a whole device driver layer into a bios.

ron




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