On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 12:25 PM, ron minnich <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Myles Watson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I meant should "onboard" devices be the only ones allowed to have ROMs in > > CBFS, but I can see that that wasn't right either. It just seems like > when > > we made the change to CBFS we allowed a lot more devices to have ROMs in > > CBFS, and I was wondering if that was intentional, or a side-effect. > > from my point of view, it fixed a problem that we also fixed in v3 -- > it was really, really hard to have lots of ROM images in coreboot > before we went to LAR/CBFS. So we fixed a shortcoming. > > It was incredibly painful (IMHO) to add rom images before we got CBFS. > > What's interesting is we can even add (e.g.) an upgraded ROM image to > CBFS that might over-ride the ROM image on an add-in card. Hence you > can "upgrade" the rom image on a card without having to reflash the > card -- just put it in CBFS. We've never done this but the possibility > is there. > Great. I just wanted to make sure we didn't need onboard any more. Uwe: Acked-by: Myles Watson <[email protected]> Thanks, Myles
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