[LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS and FreeBSD

[Philip Schulz]

Am 25.10.2007 18:54, Uwe Hermann schrieb:
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> 
> Please post all patches to the list, with a Signed-off-by:
> http://linuxbios.org/index.php/Development_Guidelines#Sign-off_Procedure
> 
> Much easier to review that way, and we don't commit any patches which
> are lacking a proper Signed-off-by line.
> 

Thanks for the pointer.

> 
>> Unfortunately, I have no idea how to detect FreeBSD from a Makefile or a 
>> Python script. But maybe someone on this list knows and wants enhance 
>> the patches so they can be included in the LinuxBIOS tree.
> 
> There are some good hints in the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD porting website:
> http://glibc-bsd.alioth.debian.org/porting/PORTING
> 
> Partly Debian/kFreeBSD specific, but most of it should also be true for
> plain FreeBSD.
> 
> Most of your patch is just make -> gmake, so it should be easy to use
> $(MAKE) everywhere and set that to "gmake" on FreeBSD and "make"
> everywhere else.
> 

Ok, thanks for the hints. I'll see what I can come up with.

> 
>> [1] http://linuxbios.org/index.php/Booting_FreeBSD_using_LinuxBIOS
> 
> Nice, thanks for adding that page!
> 
> Can you please attach a license to that wiki page? Either GPL, or
> Creative Commons, or public domain, anything free-ish will do.
> There are wiki templates you can use, e.g. {{GPL}}, {{PD-self}} etc.
> 

Done.