[LinuxBIOS] r77 - in buildrom-devel: . config/payloads config/platforms packages/linuxbios

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Thu Dec 6 17:39:34 CET 2007


On 06.12.2007 17:33, Myles Watson wrote:
>>> Modified: buildrom-devel/Config.in
>>> ===================================================================
>>> --- buildrom-devel/Config.in	2007-12-05 23:27:08 UTC (rev 76)
>>> +++ buildrom-devel/Config.in	2007-12-06 16:18:18 UTC (rev 77)
>>> @@ -43,6 +43,23 @@
>>>
>>>  menu "LinuxBIOS configuration"
>>>
>>> +config LINUXBIOS_V3
>>> +	bool "Use LinuxBIOSv3"
>>> +	depends ADVANCED
>>> +	default n
>>> +	help
>>> +	  Use the v3 tree.  LinuxBIOSv3 doesn't support all platforms yet.
>>> +
>>> +config LINUXBIOS_V3_LGDT_PATCH
>>> +	bool "Avoid an error in stage0_i586 with some compilers"
>>> +	depends LINUXBIOS_V3
>>> +	default n
>>> +	help
>>> +	  Say 'y' here to use the patch from the mailing list to replace
>>> +	  "data32  lgdt %cs:gdtptr" with
>>> +	  "movl $gdtptr"
>>> +          "%ebx lgdt %cs:(%bx)"
>>> +
>>>  config USE_LZMA
>>>  	bool "Enable LZMA compression"
>>>  	depends !PAYLOAD_OFW
>>>
>>>       
>> While I welcome almost everything in that patch, I dislike that part.
>> Either we agree on some code sequence that works for everyone or we mark
>> some compilers "broken".
>>     
>
> I like the "code sequence that works for everyone" thought.  That's more of
> a LinuxBIOSv3 issue than a buildrom issue, though.  I'd hoped to make people
> happy by not applying the patch by default.
>   

Can you send it in as a patch with a short description? If comments are
positive, we should just commit.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel




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