On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 02:16:21AM +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > > 1 means combining flashrom and lar somehow.. Thoughts? > > I think the boot block should be outside of the LAR completely.
Hmm. Interesting! > A normal LinuxBIOS upgrade shouldn't touch the bootblock; I agree. That's why lar should know about flash chip sector sizes. And/or flashrom about larballs. The idea is to rearrange the files in the larball apropriately for the current flash chip before writing. > that way, recovery code in there can help the user load a working > image into flash after some screw-up, over a serial port or > whatever. > > This also handily solves the current problem :-) But it creates another quite real problem for the first upgrade to LB where we need to distribute the bootblock separately. I think that's a _really_ undesirable scenario. :\ Especially since it will be the common case for some time still. One file is no file, two files are two files too many. ;) //Peter -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
