Re: [ECOS] Re: PC targets and ethernet

[Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 09:23:33PM +0100, John Dallaway wrote:
> Hi Jani
> 
> Jani Monoses wrote:
> 
> >there are 3 pc targets in ecos.db which only differ in the ETH drivers they
> >use.I made a new one for use in the qemu simulator and had to use yet 
> >another
> >eth driver (amd pcnet)
> >I propose adding a target (it used to be one called pc) which has no 
> >ethernet
> >so that one can chose what eth driver to add without modifying ecos.db
> >From what I saw once you go with a target you cannot remove packages.
> 
> The scheme you propose will not work with the eCos Configuration Tool 
> which prevents users from adding/removing _hardware_ packages from their 
> configuration.

lunn@londo:~/eCos$ ecosconfig new csb281
lunn@londo:~/eCos/tmp$ ecosconfig remove CYGPKG_DEVS_ETH_INTEL_I82559
lunn@londo:~/eCos/tmp$ 

package CYGPKG_DEVS_ETH_INTEL_I82559 {
        alias           { "Intel 82559 ethernet driver"
                           devs_eth_intel_i82559 i82559_eth_driver }
        hardware
        directory       devs/eth/intel/i82559
        script          intel_i82559_eth_drivers.cdl
        description     "Ethernet driver for Intel 82559 NIC."
}

So I presume you mean the GUI tool has this limitation. It seems the
CLI tool has no problems with this.

Question: Why should hardware packages not be removable?

        Andrew

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