Jordan Crouse wrote: > On 25/01/08 11:08 -0700, Marc Jones wrote: >> >> Peter Stuge wrote: >>> On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 09:12:45AM -0800, ron minnich wrote: >>>> Add Kconfig files for the northbridge. Currently we only need this >>>> for the geodelx, so we can select nrv2b decompression. >>> Why is nrv2b needed specifically for geodelx? The VSA blob? Should >>> that not use the same compression as the payload, if the user chooses >>> one? >>> >>> >>> //Peter >>> >> >> At the time it seemed like the right way to handle the VSA binary >> distribution. We posted a binary blob that would just work when cat'd >> on to a Geode platform ROM. It was a painful to do by hand... >> >> With the acceptance of buildrom and the new build configuration in v3, >> it seems as though we should change. The user/buildtool will have to >> handle the compression and padding to the correct size (don't need >> padding in v3 w/lar). > > Hmm - probably the right move, but the changes in buildrom are not > trivial for v2. We would need to figure out what the ROM size is (by greping > Config.lb, probably), compress the VSA, calculate the difference and > pad. Its not impossible, but there is lots that can go wrong if we > are not careful. > > Jordan >
We can probably get away with hard coding the pad size since the binary won't change. It should still come out to 36K. I don't think you really need to figure the ROM size. The config.lb for geodes will still have to account the same way the do now. Marc -- Marc Jones Senior Firmware Engineer (970) 226-9684 Office mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.amd.com/embeddedprocessors -- coreboot mailing list [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
