Re: Dates in boot loaders on !x86

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 09:39:58PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
 > > That's unnecessarily complicated. There's prior art for this:
 > > [...]
 > 
 > Please look at the mail that started this threat.  newvers provides
 > multiple independent variable, so conditionally providing one of them
 > needs both an option and output mangling in the users.

It doesn't need an option, because on a clean build it would always be
0 (or 1) -- if you start hacking, then it would increment
itself. Assuming you don't cleandir.

(And I didn't say to reuse the kernel's newvers script itself. All this
needs is about five lines of sh...)

 > The consensus seems to be that during normal usage, the build date is
 > irrelevant and doesn't provide any value. Based on Martin's suggestion,
 > I will add a MKVERBOSEBOOT variable or so (haven't made my mind up about
 > the name). If it is set, bootprog_kernrev will include the build date as
 > well as user and host name (like the current bootprog_maker). The
 > current bootprog_maker and bootprog_kernrev go away.

But anyway, that seems fine. Is it going to be extended to the x86
bootloader?

-- 
David A. Holland
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