Multiple Targets for PeeWee Linux

[Ralph Stickley]

We are beginning to integrate the ramdisk configuration utilities into 
the latest version of pwlconfig.  I plan on working on this over the next few
days...Anybody have any suggestions please let me know...
======
Requirement: To build a project on several different targets. Users should
configure each target as required, then choose the proper target configuration
before doing the Erase/load operations on the target device.

Main menu changes:
==================
...
---
Configure Target Device "CF 32Mb"-->
Erase "Flash" -->
Load Filesystem to Flash -->
Lilo...
---
...


Selecting "Configure Target Device -->" gives the following menu from
"pwl_targets" script file:

PWL Target Menu
===============
Select Target Type -->
Save Target Configuration for "my floppy" 
Create New Target
---
Configure "CF 32Mb" Parameters
[*] CF 32Mb
[ ] CF 16Mb
[ ] RAM 256Mb
[ ] My test Floppy
[ ] My CDROM release

Now each target file would contain all the default parameters as configured for
that target. 
The "Configure "CF 32Mb" menu item would then display the parameters (basically
just like the current "project defaults" menu )

Configure Target parameters
=================
---- Boot defaults ---
boot image file: /boot/bzImage
boot location: /dev/hda1
---- Lilo defaults ---
Lilo boot label: pwlinuz
Lilo timeout: 2
Lilo custom command: linear
Lilo image command: vga=0x317
---- Device defaults ---
Mount point: ./mnt
Device name: FLASH
Device node: /dev/hda
---- Partition defaults ---
Boot partition: 1  size: 1Mb
system partition: 2 size: 28Mb
Other partition: 3 size 2Mb
---- Ram Disk Defaults ---
initrd name: rd_image
verbose operation: On
???

And Where the Select Target Type menu is as Adi proposed:

Select Target Type
==================
1)  Compressed ramdisk on FAT 16 partition"
2)  Compressed ramdisk on ext2 partition"
3)  Uncompressed ramdisk, boot from FAT 16 partition"
4)  Uncompressed ramdisk, boot from ext2 partition"
5)  Read-only root fs with multiple ramdisks"
  ----- Non-flash target devices -----"
6)  Compressed ramdisk on floppy disk w/o bootloader"
7)  Compressed ramdisk on FAT12 floppy disk w/syslinux"
8)  Bootable iso image w/ramdisk"
9)  Bootable iso image w/read-only root"
"  -----    For testing only!     -----"
10) Read-write root on a single partition"  > 


Ok, I can integrate this and get any/all parameters stored and loaded fairly
easily.  I'll try to get the parameters from your rd_dialog functions...any
list you have would be appreciated...

The next step is to activate the Erase/Foramt command to handle all the various
partitions; and the Load command must build the ramdisk images etc..

Does this look like something that would work for all different targets ? 
Suggestions ??
Thanks,
Ralph


__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere!
http://mail.yahoo.com/
---------------------------------------------------
See the list archives at http://adis.on.ca/archives/
See the PWL homepage at  http://peeweelinux.com
---------------------------------------------------