[LinuxBIOS] Expand linuxbiosv3 support

[Jordan Crouse]

On 07/12/07 07:40 -0700, Myles Watson wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jordan Crouse [mailto:jordan.crouse at amd.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 4:47 PM
> > To: Myles Watson
> > Cc: linuxbios at linuxbios.org
> > Subject: Re: Expand linuxbiosv3 support
> > 
> > On 06/12/07 16:32 -0700, Myles Watson wrote:
> > > It complains that the logs directory doesn't exist when it tries to
> > fetch
> > > and create the linuxbiosv3/logs/fetch.log file.
> > 
> > oops - my bad - I can fix that.
> > 
> > > I prefer to have LinuxBIOSv2 and LinuxBIOSv3 represented in the same
> > way.  I
> > > think it's confusing to have one be LBV3 and one LINUXBIOS.  It seems
> > like
> > > LINUXBIOS should be used in the generic case, and things that are
> > specific
> > > to v2 or v3 should be labeled that way.
> > 
> > The problem is that v2 and v3 are way too different - so regardless of
> > the nomenclature, you're going to need to have ifeq statements everywhere,
> > and I personally think that is messier then having different variables
> > names.  If you want, we _can_ reuse the variables since we're only
> > including
> > either the v2 or the v3 .mk file, but to me that makes things more
> > confusing
> > to the person porting the platform.
> 
> I was just voting for the variables to look the same if they were the same.
> (LINUXBIOS_V2_BUILD_DIR and LINUXBIOS_V3_BUILD_DIR or LBV2_BUILD_DIR and
> LBV3_BUILD_DIR)  

That we can do.  Sorry for the confusion.

-- 
Jordan Crouse
Systems Software Development Engineer 
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.