[LinuxBIOS] r77 - in buildrom-devel: . config/payloads config/platforms packages/linuxbios
Myles Watson
myles at pel.cs.byu.edu
Thu Dec 6 17:33:24 CET 2007
> > Modified: buildrom-devel/Config.in
> > ===================================================================
> > --- buildrom-devel/Config.in 2007-12-05 23:27:08 UTC (rev 76)
> > +++ buildrom-devel/Config.in 2007-12-06 16:18:18 UTC (rev 77)
> > @@ -43,6 +43,23 @@
> >
> > menu "LinuxBIOS configuration"
> >
> > +config LINUXBIOS_V3
> > + bool "Use LinuxBIOSv3"
> > + depends ADVANCED
> > + default n
> > + help
> > + Use the v3 tree. LinuxBIOSv3 doesn't support all platforms yet.
> > +
> > +config LINUXBIOS_V3_LGDT_PATCH
> > + bool "Avoid an error in stage0_i586 with some compilers"
> > + depends LINUXBIOS_V3
> > + default n
> > + help
> > + Say 'y' here to use the patch from the mailing list to replace
> > + "data32 lgdt %cs:gdtptr" with
> > + "movl $gdtptr"
> > + "%ebx lgdt %cs:(%bx)"
> > +
> > config USE_LZMA
> > bool "Enable LZMA compression"
> > depends !PAYLOAD_OFW
> >
>
> While I welcome almost everything in that patch, I dislike that part.
> Either we agree on some code sequence that works for everyone or we mark
> some compilers "broken".
I like the "code sequence that works for everyone" thought. That's more of
a LinuxBIOSv3 issue than a buildrom issue, though. I'd hoped to make people
happy by not applying the patch by default.
Myles
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