[LinuxBIOS] Epia M tree build issue

[Jonathan McDowell]

On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 10:33:50AM -0700, Eric Poulsen wrote:
> Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 09:31:24AM -0700, Eric Poulsen wrote:
> >> I know I'm beginning to sound like a broken record here, but I can't 
> >> seem to get a definitive answer, and the build process for LB is ... 
> >> complex.
> >>
> >> 1) Is the effect reproducible on other systems? Has anyone else tried to 
> >> follow the same steps I have?*
> >> 2) If so, is this a "real" issue?  Or do I just badly mis-understand the 
> >> LB build process?
> >>     
> >  
> > FWIW I tend to do "./buildtarget via/epia-m/Config.lb" in the targets
> > directory, then change to the via/epia-m/epia-m/ directory that gets
> > made, type "make" and it works. I have found that the build system
> > doesn't always take account of changes I make such that I end up
> > removing via/epia-m/epia-m/ and rerunning buildtarget to be sure of a
> > clean build.
> Did you add the VGA options (CONFIG_CONSOLE_VGA=1,CONFIG_PCI_ROM_RUN=1) 
> to Config.lb before the buildtarget?  This is crucial to making the 
> issue exhibit itself -- without these options, it compiles cleanly for 
> me, as well.

Ah, right. No. Part of my interest in LinuxBIOS is proper serial console
support, so I'm not using VGA at all.

J.

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