Re: New directions for the Etherboot project

On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 11:13:40AM +0100, Michael Brown wrote:
> On Mon, 2 May 2005, Geert Stappers wrote:
> > The move from monolithic to modular is good.
> > 
> > What I think that is needed for that, is an overhaul of the build
> > system.
> 
> Already done. 

OKAY!!!

> For a preview of what will be moved into Etherboot 5.5 CVS 
> in a week or so, check out 
> 
>   :ext:cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/gpxe/gpxe/gpxe-0/src
> 
> It allows for the building of any Etherboot image (with any custom 
> options) in under half a second, easy enabling of debugging ("make 
> bin/rtl8139.zdsk DEBUG=pci,tftp", for example), banishes "#ifdef" to the 
> "considered harmful" category while still allowing features to be included 
> or excluded at will, and provides a mechanism for guaranteeing that any 
> build of Etherboot, with any custom options, will compile and link without 
> errors.


Great.


What makes you wait (holding it back) for a week to let in CVS?
Please prevent duplicate work. Anyway, thanks for telling that is exists.

> 
> Michael


Cheers
Geert Stappers
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