[SeaBIOS] Question about linker building seabios

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 09:38:37PM +0100, Marc Bertens wrote:
> Kevin,
> 
> Finally here is the patch for Kconfig build system for SeaBIOS, the
> patch exists out of two files;
> 1.    kconfig-for-seabios-patch.1.diff    this is the part where the new
> files are added.
> 2.    kconfig-for-seabios-patch.2.diff    this is the part with the
> changes to the existing files.

Thanks Marc.

Your patch was too large for the mailing list.  Can you put future
versions online somewhere or send compressed?

> I hope that you agree with the changes :-) and that the kconfig will
> here to stay....
> 
> I loaned the kconfig build system from the coreboot project, maybe there
> are some references there what i missed.

[...]
> +++ b/src/configh.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,248 @@
> +/*
> + * This file is part of the seabios project.
> + *
> + * Copyright (C) 2011       Marc Bertens <mbertens at xs4all.nl>
> + * Copyright (C) 2008-2010  Kevin O'Connor <kevin at koconnor.net>
> + *
> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> + * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
> + * the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.
[...]

I really don't like these big copyright banners.  I don't see much
point in copyrighting a header file.  SeaBIOS is LGPLv3, and all core
files must use that copyright.

This doesn't apply to non-core files copied from other projects, so
doesn't need to be true for tools/kconfig.

Also, your first patch modifies seabios, but I thought you were going
to do that in patch2?  I don't see a reason to have old way and new
way in parallel - lets just go right to the kconfig way.  The way
you've introduced configh.h, configu.h, and configk.h in addition to
the existing config.h is confusing.

[...]
> --- a/tools/kconfig/Makefile
> +++ b/tools/kconfig/Makefile
> @@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ endif
>  $(objk)/gconf.o: $(objk)/.tmp_gtkcheck
>  
>  ifeq ($(gconf-target),1)
> --include $(objk)/.tmp_gtkcheck
> +include $(objk)/.tmp_gtkcheck
>  
>  # GTK needs some extra effort, too...
>  $(objk)/.tmp_gtkcheck:
> @@ -250,23 +250,23 @@ endif
>  
>  # --- UNUSED, ignore ----------------------------------------------------------
>  ifdef UNUSED
> -$(obj)/zconf.tab.o: $(obj)/lex.zconf.c $(obj)/zconf.hash.c
> +$(obj)/zconf.tab.o: $(srck)/lex.zconf.c $(srck)/zconf.hash.c

Can you explain what this does?

-Kevin