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+NAME="FINE-GRAINED-CONFIGURATION">Fine-grained Configuration</H1
+><P
+><B
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+>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
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+>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
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+><PRE
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+><P
+>The  <B
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+>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
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