[coreboot] [RFC] newbuild branch

Myles Watson mylesgw at gmail.com
Fri Jul 31 20:17:24 CEST 2009


> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Myles Watson<mylesgw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > For major changes like this, I'd like to see Qemu, Serengeti-cheetah,
> one
> > Intel board, 1 AMD K8 or Fam10 board, and maybe a Geode board functional
> > before committing.  I think that forces some of the kinks to be worked
> out
> > earlier.
> 
> Myles, if we can guarantee that everything keeps working, i.e. there
> is no harm done with Kconfig in the tree, is there any reason not to
> start comitting this Kconfig code?
The only harm is that we have multiple half-done things in the tree right
now.  I think it makes the whole project more fragile to leave the loose
ends.

> This is how we made the change rom v1 config tool to v2 config tool;
> they were both active in the v2 tree at the same time, and gradually
> the v1 config tool died out.
I think you're right; it can work out.  I guess that's why v2 config is
still called newconfig.

Thanks,
Myles






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