On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 8:01 AM, Mike Frysinger vapier@gentoo.org wrote:
On Thursday, August 25, 2011 08:58:00 Simon Glass wrote:
Proposal
for people who might be familiar with the barebox boot loader, Simon is basically proposing the same thing as barebox's "sandbox" target.
to avoid confusion/fragmentation in this area, and since the name is a large part bike shedding, i propose we adopt the same name that barebox has. that way we can sanely use the same term when comparing/contrasting.
from the barebox website: Sandbox
If you develop features for Barebox, you can use the 'sandbox' target which compiles Barebox as a POSIX application in the Linux userspace: it can be started like a normal command and even has network access (tun/tap). Files from the local filesytem can be used to simulate devices.
Makes good sense.
Comments
At this early stage I am looking for comments on the concept - how useful it is and how best to implement it.
i certainly think it's a worthwhile exercise, especially if it gets us to the point where we can do `make check` and have confidence in our common code changes not being completely f-ed up.
Indeed, I am very excited about this as well. :)
Thanks, Anton
-mike
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