On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 09:26:08AM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > > In particular, I'd like to be able to go into my "normal" directory > > and run "svn up", "make", and then "flashrom" - and be fairly > > confident that I didn't just blow up my image. [...] > Two problem areas need to be looked at: > 1. Can the new build reuse the old bootblock? Does the new build have to > know the old bootblock? > 2. How do you merge old and new images? [...] > 2. is a bit more problematic regardless of whether you have v2 or v3. If > you don't want to reflash the old parts of the image, you can't rename > them either. If the old part was called "fallback", it will still be > called "fallback" after flashing some new parts into the ROM. That means > each time you reflash, the new part's name will be the opposite of the > old part's name. Of course, with such a system, calling these things > "fallback" and "normal" makes no sense anymore. After all, we always > want to boot the newly flashed image first and the name doesn't tell us > which one is new.
I'd always want to flash and boot the image I put in the "normal" directory. I don't want to rename "fallback" - I don't want to change it at all. -Kevin -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
