Python used to configure Linux kernel

Stian Husemoen stianh at ifi.uio.no
Sat May 27 08:13:14 EDT 2000


Andrew Cooke wrote:
>This may be old news (sorry!), but there was a cryptic comment on NTK
>("What with ESR's religious-war-by-the-backdoor plans to make  Kernel
>configuration dependent on Python...") that caught my eye.  Turns out
>that kernel config will be done in a new language (CML2) whose
>interpreter is written in Python.

I have been following a thread in the linux-kernel list - from the
fa.linux.kernel newsgroup - named 'Announcing CML2, a replacement for 
the kbuild system':

http://x71.deja.com/viewthread.xp?mhitnum=0&AN=626815707.1

sure-hope-this-link-works-ly y'rs
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Stian Husemoen <stianh>



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