Re: Merging graphical boot floppies
On Mar 16, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> I would like to start merging the graphical boot floppies support into
> the main boot floppies code this weekend, presumably by making a new
> branch of the CVS.
Great!
> The necessary changes are as follows:
>
> * A few new .c and .h files implementing the BOGL graphics library and
> BOWL window library, along with a couple of .bdf fonts and .gif
> graphics and Perl programs to convert them into .c forms directly
> usable by BOGL. Probably be best in a separate subdirectory under
> utilities/.
Yes.
> * A replacement for boxes.c, probably to be named boxes-bowl.c, to go
> in utilities/dinstall. It would be nice to then rename boxes.c to
> boxes-newt.c, but considering the way CVS works with renames that
> might not be practical.
>
> * color_or_monochrome.c and tzconfig.c call newt functions directly,
> so it's necessary to add code to them too, or better yet to rewrite
> them to use the functions in boxes.c (I find the timezone config box
> a little confusing anyway).
>
> * Need to add an option to one of the Makefiles somewhere to compile
> for BOGL/BOWL rather than newt. In addition it's not necessary to
> link with newt when BOGL/BOWL are used. slang might still be
> necessary--does cfdisk use it?
>
> Questions:
>
> * Do I need to do something special to get write access to the CVS
> tree, or do I already have it as a Debian developer?
> * Any special instructions for creating a new branch?
> * What are the chances of getting this into potato?
You have write acess as a debian maintainer. But i think it is a good
idea to create first only the sub-directory in utilities and not adding
files to dinstall currently. So everyone can co it and test it.
How will you seperate it: make 'normal' , make graphical ?
Your bogl isn't arch/fbdev clean. Please look at this:
gcc -c -g -O3 -Wall -W -DBOGL_VGA16_FB bogl.c -o bogl.o
bogl.c:58: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `visible'
bogl.c: In function `bogl_init':
bogl.c:130: `FB_TYPE_VGA_PLANES' undeclared (first use in this function)
bogl.c:130: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
bogl.c:130: for each function it appears in.)
bogl.c: In function `draw_enable':
bogl.c:313: `FB_TYPE_VGA_PLANES' undeclared (first use in this function)
make: *** [bogl.o] Error 1
Btw: look at the CFLAGS line; -Werror is not a good choice. To explain
it a little bit:
I have not patched the kernel with your VGA16 diff. It must!! be possible
to use the fb-devices in the kernel or as modules, that are available.
So please seperate it and use only the kernel headers for the
framebuffer devices.
Greetings,
Hartmut
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