Re: [coreboot] How to handle vbt.bin

2018-04-16 Thread Zoran Stojsavljevic
Lot af talk, no work... All of this is already architected. I already did some ground work here (also parts assembled from Coreboot responses approximately a year ago): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coreboot/VBT The thing which needs to be done ASAP (in *RED*): 1. Make a "decompiler" that

Re: [coreboot] How to handle vbt.bin

2018-04-16 Thread Nico Huber
On 16.04.2018 08:44, Patrick Rudolph wrote: > On 2018-04-15 11:30 PM, Nico Huber wrote: >> On 15.04.2018 17:12, Patrick Rudolph wrote: >>> On Sun, 2018-04-15 at 13:43 +0200, Nico Huber wrote: On 15.04.2018 12:48, Patrick Rudolph wrote: > On Thu, 2018-04-05 at 11:34 -0500, Matt DeVillier

Re: [coreboot] How to handle vbt.bin

2018-04-16 Thread Patrick Rudolph
On 2018-04-15 11:30 PM, Nico Huber wrote: > On 15.04.2018 17:12, Patrick Rudolph wrote: >> On Sun, 2018-04-15 at 13:43 +0200, Nico Huber wrote: >>> On 15.04.2018 12:48, Patrick Rudolph wrote: On Thu, 2018-04-05 at 11:34 -0500, Matt DeVillier wrote: > On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 11:29 AM, Nico

Re: [coreboot] How to handle vbt.bin

2018-04-15 Thread Nico Huber
On 15.04.2018 17:12, Patrick Rudolph wrote: > On Sun, 2018-04-15 at 13:43 +0200, Nico Huber wrote: >> On 15.04.2018 12:48, Patrick Rudolph wrote: >>> On Thu, 2018-04-05 at 11:34 -0500, Matt DeVillier wrote: On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 11:29 AM, Nico Huber wrote: > On 05.04.2018

Re: [coreboot] How to handle vbt.bin

2018-04-15 Thread Patrick Rudolph
On Sun, 2018-04-15 at 13:43 +0200, Nico Huber wrote: > On 15.04.2018 12:48, Patrick Rudolph wrote: > > On Thu, 2018-04-05 at 11:34 -0500, Matt DeVillier wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 11:29 AM, Nico Huber wrote: > > > > On 05.04.2018 18:15, Matt DeVillier wrote: > > > > > my

Re: [coreboot] How to handle vbt.bin

2018-04-15 Thread Peter Stuge
Nico Huber wrote: > VBT is mostly nee- ded for Windows and who knows what the driver > does there; when it comes to Linux, we should at least try to talk > some sense into the developer's to tell us which information they > really need. I wouldn't assume that they know in advance - I think they

Re: [coreboot] How to handle vbt.bin

2018-04-15 Thread Nico Huber
On 15.04.2018 14:28, Peter Stuge wrote: > Arthur Heymans wrote: >> one would be able to generate this binary file but due to its >> modularity and variable length such generator would be tedious to >> create. > > How tedious? I think the tedious part is choosing which fields you want to fill.

Re: [coreboot] How to handle vbt.bin

2018-04-15 Thread Peter Stuge
Arthur Heymans wrote: > one would be able to generate this binary file but due to its > modularity and variable length such generator would be tedious to > create. How tedious? Do you know where documentation can be found? //Peter -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org

Re: [coreboot] How to handle vbt.bin

2018-04-15 Thread Nico Huber
On 15.04.2018 12:48, Patrick Rudolph wrote: > On Thu, 2018-04-05 at 11:34 -0500, Matt DeVillier wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 11:29 AM, Nico Huber wrote: >>> On 05.04.2018 18:15, Matt DeVillier wrote: my instinct is to put it in the 3rd party blobs repo, since it's added to

Re: [coreboot] How to handle vbt.bin

2018-04-15 Thread Zoran Stojsavljevic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coreboot/VBT Zoran ___ On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 12:48 PM, Patrick Rudolph wrote: > On Thu, 2018-04-05 at 11:34 -0500, Matt DeVillier wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 11:29 AM, Nico Huber wrote: > > > On 05.04.2018 18:15,

Re: [coreboot] How to handle vbt.bin

2018-04-15 Thread Patrick Rudolph
On Thu, 2018-04-05 at 11:34 -0500, Matt DeVillier wrote: > On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 11:29 AM, Nico Huber wrote: > > On 05.04.2018 18:15, Matt DeVillier wrote: > > > my instinct is to put it in the 3rd party blobs repo, since it's > > added to > > > the CBFS w/o modification (ie, is

Re: [coreboot] How to handle vbt.bin

2018-04-05 Thread Matt DeVillier
On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 11:29 AM, Nico Huber wrote: > On 05.04.2018 18:15, Matt DeVillier wrote: > > my instinct is to put it in the 3rd party blobs repo, since it's added to > > the CBFS w/o modification (ie, is treated like a blob), unlike the SPD > hex > > files which are

Re: [coreboot] How to handle vbt.bin

2018-04-05 Thread Nico Huber
On 05.04.2018 18:15, Matt DeVillier wrote: > my instinct is to put it in the 3rd party blobs repo, since it's added to > the CBFS w/o modification (ie, is treated like a blob), unlike the SPD hex > files which are selectively ordered and assembled into the spd.bin (ie, > treated as source). Files

Re: [coreboot] How to handle vbt.bin

2018-04-05 Thread Matt DeVillier
my instinct is to put it in the 3rd party blobs repo, since it's added to the CBFS w/o modification (ie, is treated like a blob), unlike the SPD hex files which are selectively ordered and assembled into the spd.bin (ie, treated as source). For the example case you sited of users building