Development Guidelines

This is work in progress.

Development Environment

• Required toolchains etc.

Coding Guidelines

Coding Style

• Indentation etc.

Documentation

• General guidelines and tips
• Doxygen

Testing

• abuild

Svn Commits

• Send patches to the Mailinglist for review before committing.
• Patch from: XYZ
• Signed off by: XYZ

License Issues

• Contributed code must be GPL'd (preferrably GPLv2 or any later version), or at least have a GPL-compatible license.

Common License Header

Example:

/*
 * This file is part of LinuxBIOS, a Free Software BIOS implementation.
 *
 * Copyright (C) 2003-2005 John Doe <john@example.com>
 * Copyright (C) 2006 Jane Doe <jane@example.com>
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301 USA
 */