On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 11:40:10AM +0200, Patrick Georgi wrote: > We could move compression out of subheader fields into the regular file > header, so every file could be compressed (though for some it wouldn't > be useful, eg. romstages or EC roms), and then make this a global variable. > > However, we had our reasons not to do this. Pick your poison
I wasn't looking to rework the CBFS format. Right now, it can be a pain for SeaBIOS users to add certain compressed files like floppies. Today they need to do: $ lzma -zc /path/to/myfloppy.img > myfloppy.img.lzma $ cbfstool coreboot.rom add myfloppy.img.lzma floppyimg/MyFloppy.lzma raw Unfortunately, not everyone has the "lzma" tool, and some distro versions of that tool are quirky. So, I'm looking for a helper to cbfstool to make adding compressed raw files simpler for end users. I've also been thinking of adding another helper - "add-string". So a user could do something like: "cbfstool ROM add-string '5500' cfg/boot-menu-delay". As I think this may be a straight forward way to pass simple config items into SeaBIOS. -Kevin -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
