Hi Crouse, 2007/5/1, Jordan Crouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > As promised, this is a patch to turn the current buildROM build environment > in to the next generation build system. >
I am developing a LinuxBIOS distro maker based in the old buildROM version because I don't know that you are developing a new version. > For those of you who don't know what buildROM is - it started life as a > series of Makefiles that build the Linux-As-Bootloader (LAB) image for > early versions of One Laptop Per Child platforms. The goal is to > consolidate all the effort into a single makefile > that knows how to build the payload, build LinuxBIOS, and construct > the ROM. > I will test your new version. buildROM is very nice because user/developer just issue "make" and everything is done. The main problem with old version is because it don't allow user easily choose the busybox applets to firmware. I am just fixing it using also the kbuild system. > This generation of buildROM takes that concept further - it is now kconfig > based, and understands how to build multiple payloads for a number of > different > platforms (and adding new payloads and platforms is very easy). In addition > to LAB, buildROM can now build etherboot, FILO, memtest, OFW and straight > kernel payloads. It can also be configured to include a custom payload, > so you can feed it the .ELF of your choice. > Sure, I think it will help me so much. > I'm rather happy with buildROM right now - we've been building memtest, > FILO and etherboot images to test the Geode LX with very little effort. > Please give it a try, and let me know what you find. > I will test it ASAP. > This patch is against the SVN tree at: > > svn://openbios.org/buildrom/buildrom-devel/buildrom > > Jordan > > -- > Jordan Crouse > Senior Linux Engineer > Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. > <www.amd.com/embeddedprocessors> > Cheers, Alan -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios