heya, On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 11:53:04AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > At the occasion of the Google Summer of Code, I have to create a kernel > configuration management tool. > The tool will make is possible to give a tree of the possible options of > configuration and the list of the modules which can be created by these > options > (either even those which are removed or renamed for example). > > I think that the project is divided in two parts. > First, we have to create a Lexer and a Parser, to do so I will use > Ocaml.(thanks to OcamlLex and Ocamlyacc) for the following files: > the .config files, > files which are organize in a hierarchy version in the > Debian package source (Debian/arch/) > and kconfig files of the kernel > > The Lexer and the Parser are easily built because the files configuration > syntax is simple and his grammar is given in the documentation: > Kconfig-language.txt. > For every kind of files (.config, debian/arch/ et Kconfig), we have an > Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) of the possible options. > After we will just have to combine the three AST obtained which will allow > us to obtain the AST of the all possible options by arch/subarch/flavour.
nack for ocaml stuff.. build an interface on top of menuconfig so that one could throw for example: make debianconfig make debianconfig ARCH=i386 make debianconfig ARCH=i386 FLAVOUR=k7 the first one should allow to modify the top config and allow to browse into the specific archs, while the more specific one would only show a restricted view. i don't see how ocaml would help there. > The final AST will be convertible i.e at the end we will have a version > which will be easily understood by the developer. > > Then, we will have to create a Lexer and a Parser for the kernel's Makefile. > > As a result we will be able to use the AST we created and the AST of the > all possible options to create the modules list which were created by the > different options. > I think this tool will be used in an important way within the management of > the > kernel. well the project ist distribution specific, as most probable no other distro has the same conf organisation. but it should still have a focus on a possible acceptance upstream. so first focus needs to be understanding of kbuild. > What do you think about this project ? that i'd like a ncurses interface like usual menuconfig, that seems the most natural. of course extensions like make olddebianconfig would be cool too!! > Do you have some suggestions ? see above. regards -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
