[LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS Solaris Dev

Uwe Hermann uwe at hermann-uwe.de
Thu Feb 1 02:26:45 CET 2007


On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 11:42:43PM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> Uwe Hermann wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 02:44:05PM -0700, ron minnich wrote:
> >> I don't see a solaris port as a huge problem. flashrom just uses mmap
> >> and solaris has that.
> >>
> >> If you want to try a make and see what happens, I'd like to hear how it goes.
> > 
> > Just a short note: if you build flashrom without having the whole
> > LinuxBIOS source tree around, you'll need to copy the file
> > src/include/boot/linuxbios_tables.h into the flashrom source directory
> > and apply the attached patch to make it use the file.
> > 
> > 
> > Btw, should we apply this in svn anyways? flashrom cannot be used
> > indepently otherwise...
> 
> Yes. Should we have a "make update_includes" target or something
> similar, or mention this in the README at least?

Hm, why not just put a copy of the file in util/flashrom? Will there be
(backwards-)compatibility problems when the file changes in LinuxBIOS?
I don't think so, but maybe I'm wrong.

Patch attached.


Uwe.
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