Re: [coreboot] Patching Config.lb

2008-01-25 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 25/01/08 10:39 -0700, Myles Watson wrote: Jordan, What benefit do we get from patching Config.lb instead of just copying a new one into the directory? It seems like the same thing, only the complete Config.lb would be more human readable. I just thought that as long as you are

Re: [coreboot] LZMA magic number

2008-01-25 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 25.01.2008 18:58, Peter Stuge wrote: On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:55:24AM -0700, Myles Watson wrote: I accidentally used an uncompressed payload with v2 when it expected a compressed payload, and it gave me the message: Decoder scratchpad too small!! Decoding error = 1

Re: [coreboot] patch: add Kconfig support for v3 north

2008-01-25 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Sorry Ron, this is not meant as a rant against you. The patch you posted just fitted a pattern I'm seeing more and more often. Our problem is that we try to handle copyright issues with perfection. That sometimes causes us to go overboard with attributions. On 25.01.2008 18:12, ron minnich wrote:

Re: [coreboot] [patch] flashrom for Geode

2008-01-25 Thread ron minnich
On Jan 24, 2008 3:23 PM, Peter Stuge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 03:43:31PM -0700, Marc Jones wrote: For correctness do a read-modify-write of the ROM write-protect area. Thank you. Correctly disable the ROM area Write Protect bit in the Geode LX. signed-off by:

[coreboot] r3078 - trunk/util/flashrom

2008-01-25 Thread svn
Author: rminnich Date: 2008-01-26 08:35:47 +0100 (Sat, 26 Jan 2008) New Revision: 3078 Modified: trunk/util/flashrom/chipset_enable.c Log: Correctly disable the ROM area Write Protect bit in the Geode LX. Signed-off-by: Marc Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Peter Stuge [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [coreboot] stage2 access to LAR

2008-01-25 Thread Stefan Reinauer
ron minnich wrote: how does stage 2 access LAR? The mem_file struct is an auto (local) for stage1. void __attribute__((stdcall)) stage1_main(u32 bist) { int ret; struct mem_file archive, result; int elfboot_mem(struct lb_memory *mem, void *where, int size); void

[coreboot] stage2 access to LAR

2008-01-25 Thread ron minnich
how does stage 2 access LAR? The mem_file struct is an auto (local) for stage1. void __attribute__((stdcall)) stage1_main(u32 bist) { int ret; struct mem_file archive, result; int elfboot_mem(struct lb_memory *mem, void *where, int size); void *entry; You need

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] Rename lxbios to nvramtool

2008-01-25 Thread Uwe Hermann
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 04:41:31PM +0100, Patrick Georgi wrote: Am Freitag, den 25.01.2008, 16:37 +0100 schrieb Uwe Hermann: If I get an ACK for the patch, I'll do steps 2 and 3 also, right after comitting the patch. How does that interact with those symbolic links in the cbv2 and cbv3

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] Rename lxbios to nvramtool

2008-01-25 Thread Patrick Georgi
Am Freitag, den 25.01.2008, 16:37 +0100 schrieb Uwe Hermann: If I get an ACK for the patch, I'll do steps 2 and 3 also, right after comitting the patch. How does that interact with those symbolic links in the cbv2 and cbv3 trees? Regards, Patrick Georgi -- coreboot mailing list

[coreboot] [PATCH] Rename lxbios to nvramtool

2008-01-25 Thread Uwe Hermann
See patch. This is step 1 in a three-step commit: 1. Apply patch, commit. 2. Rename some files: $ svn mv lxbios.c nvramtool.c $ svn mv lxbios.1 nvramtool.c $ svn mv lxbios.spec nvramtool.spec $ svn ci 3. Rename lxbios directory: $ svn mv lxbios/ nvramtool/ $ svn ci

[coreboot] LinuxTag 2008 in Berlin, May 28-31

2008-01-25 Thread Peter Stuge
The Call for Projects has been released. http://www.linuxtag.org/2008/de/community/projects/cfpro.html http://www.linuxtag.org/2008/en/community/projects/cfpro/call-for-projects.html Applications must be in before February 21st. I think we did OK last year, but if we do a bit more careful

Re: [coreboot] [patch] 'dist' target for 'flashrom' Makefile

2008-01-25 Thread Peter Stuge
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 03:43:02PM +0100, Uwe Hermann wrote: Personally, I'm not convinced we want to do tarball releases at all, not sure it's worth the hassle. Definately not real releases as in flashrom 0.4.5 or so, These are very good for distributions. Not all distributions can deal with

[coreboot] r3075 - trunk/util/lxbios

2008-01-25 Thread svn
Author: uwe Date: 2008-01-25 16:08:37 +0100 (Fri, 25 Jan 2008) New Revision: 3075 Modified: trunk/util/lxbios/COPYING trunk/util/lxbios/ChangeLog trunk/util/lxbios/DISCLAIMER trunk/util/lxbios/Makefile trunk/util/lxbios/README trunk/util/lxbios/cmos_lowlevel.c

Re: [coreboot] LinuxBIOS/coreboot and security

2008-01-25 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Hi Philipp, On 25.01.2008 12:50, Philipp Marek wrote: My question is this. I'd like to secure machines against the people that should work with them [1]. Ah. Classic DRM. In most BIOSes I can set the boot order to harddisk only. (coreboot too, right?). That doesn't help if someone has

[coreboot] r3077 - trunk/coreboot-v2/targets

2008-01-25 Thread svn
Author: oxygene Date: 2008-01-25 20:31:26 +0100 (Fri, 25 Jan 2008) New Revision: 3077 Modified: trunk/coreboot-v2/targets/buildtarget Log: bsh/ksh-clone and make(1)-syntax don't go well together (unlike 5 lines later where make syntax is emitted into a file) Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi

[coreboot] r3076 - in trunk/coreboot-v2/src: arch/i386/boot include/boot

2008-01-25 Thread svn
Author: oxygene Date: 2008-01-25 19:28:18 +0100 (Fri, 25 Jan 2008) New Revision: 3076 Modified: trunk/coreboot-v2/src/arch/i386/boot/coreboot_table.c trunk/coreboot-v2/src/include/boot/coreboot_tables.h Log: This patch adds a new record type for lbtable to provide information about a serial

Re: [coreboot] Patching Config.lb

2008-01-25 Thread ron minnich
On Jan 25, 2008 10:07 AM, Peter Stuge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We were discussing an overlay config - that is applied after the current Config.lb if specified in an environment variable. Is that still interesting? Would it solve the problem? I think that's a quick hack, I could take a look.

Re: [coreboot] Patching Config.lb

2008-01-25 Thread Peter Stuge
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:44:38AM -0700, Jordan Crouse wrote: I agree with all of this. We should switch to complete Config.lbs for v2. Also, the reason why I haven't submitted my patch is that buildtarget is still broken for -fno-stack-protector (as per a previous email), and I figured

Re: [coreboot] patch: add Kconfig support for v3 north

2008-01-25 Thread ron minnich
On Jan 25, 2008 10:04 AM, Uwe Hermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, this one is per-board instead of per-chipset, but well... I think we need to get per-chipset settings into per-chipset Kconfigs. Anything else is going to drive us totally crazy :-) Let's fix this thing I did which is broken

Re: [coreboot] patch: add Kconfig support for v3 north

2008-01-25 Thread Uwe Hermann
How about this? Seems to work, or at least it builds for me. Index: mainboard/pcengines/Kconfig === --- mainboard/pcengines/Kconfig (Revision 560) +++ mainboard/pcengines/Kconfig (Arbeitskopie) @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ select

[coreboot] patch: add Kconfig support for v3 north

2008-01-25 Thread ron minnich
attached Add Kconfig files for the northbridge. Currently we only need this for the geodelx, so we can select nrv2b decompression. This has been tested in build and behaves as we want it to: nrv decompression is enabled and the code compiled in. Signed-off-by: Ronald G. Minnich [EMAIL

Re: [coreboot] [patch] 'dist' target for 'flashrom' Makefile

2008-01-25 Thread Uwe Hermann
Hi, On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 09:55:30PM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: I just implemented release tarball generation (with ChangeLog generation) in the enclosed patch for flashrom's Makefile, diffed against SVN. Please send all patches with a Signed-off-by, otherwise we cannot commit. See

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] Abit BE6-II V2.0 support (repost)

2008-01-25 Thread Sergei Antonov
2008/1/14 Uwe Hermann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, here's a repost of a patch from last year which has not yet been comitted. See discussion starting at http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2007-December/028076.html for details. The code works well enough to be committed IMO, some issue

[coreboot] LinuxBIOS/coreboot and security

2008-01-25 Thread Philipp Marek
Hello everybody! First I have to admit that while I occasionally followed the progress of LinuxBIOS I don't really know that much about it, so please forgive me if that discussion is already over and done with. My question is this. I'd like to secure machines against the people that should work

[coreboot] [PATCH][v2] buildtarget tries to apply make syntax to shell

2008-01-25 Thread Patrick Georgi
Hi, see attached patch Regards, Patrick Georgi bsh/ksh-clone and make(1)-syntax don't go well together (unlike 5 lines later where make syntax is emitted into a file) Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: targets/buildtarget