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<!-- Copyright (C) 2003 Red Hat, Inc. --> <!-- This material may be distributed only subject to the terms --> <!-- and conditions set forth in the Open Publication License, v1.0 --> <!-- or later (the latest version is presently available at --> <!-- http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/). --> <!-- Distribution of the work or derivative of the work in any --> <!-- standard (paper) book form is prohibited unless prior --> <!-- permission is obtained from the copyright holder. --> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Fine-grained Configuration</TITLE ><meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.76b+ "><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="eCos User Guide" HREF="ecos-user-guide.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Manual Configuration" HREF="manual-configuration.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Coarse-grained Configuration" HREF="coarse-grained-configuration.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Editing an eCos Savefile" HREF="editing-an-ecos-savefile.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >eCos User Guide</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="coarse-grained-configuration.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Chapter 28. Manual Configuration</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="editing-an-ecos-savefile.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="FINE-GRAINED-CONFIGURATION">Fine-grained Configuration</H1 ><P ><B CLASS="COMMAND" >ecosconfig</B > only provides coarse-grained control over the configuration: the hardware, the template and the packages that should be built. Unlike the Configuration Tool, <B CLASS="COMMAND" >ecosconfig</B > does not provide any facilities for manipulating finer-grained configuration options such as how many priority levels the scheduler should support. There are hundreds of these options, and manipulating them by means of command line arguments would not be sensible. </P ><P >In the current system fine-grained configuration options may be manipulated by manual editing of the configuration file. When a file has been edited in this way, the <B CLASS="COMMAND" >ecosconfig</B > tool should be used to check the configuration for any conflicts which may have been introduced:</P ><TABLE BORDER="5" BGCOLOR="#E0E0F0" WIDTH="70%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="SCREEN" >$ ecosconfig check</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P >The <B CLASS="COMMAND" >check</B > command will list all conflicts and will also rewrite the configuration file, propagating any changes which affect other options. The user may choose to resolve the conflicts either by re-editing the configuration file manually or by invoking the inference engine using the <B CLASS="COMMAND" >resolve</B > command:</P ><TABLE BORDER="5" BGCOLOR="#E0E0F0" WIDTH="70%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="SCREEN" >$ ecosconfig resolve</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P >The <B CLASS="COMMAND" >resolve</B > command will list all conflicts which can be resolved and save the resulting changes to the configuration.</P ><P >It is necessary to regenerate the build tree and header files following any changes to the configuration before rebuilding <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >eCos</SPAN >:</P ><TABLE BORDER="5" BGCOLOR="#E0E0F0" WIDTH="70%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="SCREEN" >$ ecosconfig tree</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P >All the configuration options and their descriptions are listed in the <I CLASS="CITETITLE" ><SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >eCos</SPAN > Reference Manual</I >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="coarse-grained-configuration.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ecos-user-guide.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="editing-an-ecos-savefile.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Coarse-grained Configuration</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="manual-configuration.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Editing an <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >eCos</SPAN > Savefile</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >