On 09.02.2008 22:34, Brendan Trotter wrote: > On 2/9/08, ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I think it would be interesting to have a buildrom option for 'build EFI'. >> > > It'd be much more interesting to have no buildrom options for payloads > at all. Let the user install their own payload *after* coreboot is > installed. >
I think you may be confusing buildrom with coreboot. Buildrom is there to create a ROM with payload. The normal coreboot build process doesn't really care about a payload. > Why? So motherboard manufactures for a wide range of hardware (e.g. > embedded, desktop and server) can install coreboot as default on all > motherboards. > > It's better for the motherboard manufacturer, who would be freed from > the hassle of deciding whether to use PC BIOS or EFI or GRUB or > whatever. > > It's also better for the end-user, who isn't stuck with the > manufacturers choice of payload and doesn't need to get their hands > dirty with compilers and compile-time configuration. If it's done > right, a complete moron could safely install a pre-built payload of > any description on top of pre-installed coreboot, without worrying > about bricking their hardware (or stuffing up their warranty). > It is surprisingly hard to get this right with limited flash sizes of today. > There's only 2 things coreboot is missing. The first is an inbuilt > "update payload from <device>" utility to make installing (and > reinstalling) a payload after coreboot is installed incredibly simple > (e.g. something that can easily be used by end-users who have never > seen a compiler in their life and never will). > This is impossible in the general case and hard in some special cases. > The second thing that's missing is a "payload specification" (with > backward compatability) that allows payloads to be written by anyone > that always work reliably without any compatability problems. Without > this, coreboot is too volatile for any sane third party to rely on. > Ah, the same point you already stated earlier and which was already answered. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/ -- coreboot mailing list [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
