On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 09:09:50AM +0200, Patrick Georgi wrote: > My plan for it, pending any better solution: > - unify the decision stuff into a single place > - move everything but the decision stuff out of the bootblock (so it > essentially becomes immutable across updates) > - extend kconfig so it knows how to update existing images (by adding > new files) > - somehow make flashrom smart enough to safely update the flash
Thanks - that sounds like a big improvement. > Open issues are: > We need early rom mapping and CMOS access for all boards. So far, only > the boards with failover layout are somewhat guaranteed to have code for > that. Proprietary BIOS have a cmos variable for a similar purpose - 0x0f (RESET CODE). Coreboot could probably use the same variable - defining one variable for all boards is probably simpler than having to define it on every board. -Kevin -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
