the following patch was just integrated into master: commit 899d13d0dff9e7495eb17950f19431e9bd344b2f Author: Aaron Durbin adurbin@chromium.org Date: Fri May 15 23:39:23 2015 -0500
cbfs: new API and better program loading
A new CBFS API is introduced to allow making CBFS access easier for providing multiple CBFS sources. That is achieved by decoupling the cbfs source from a CBFS file. A CBFS source is described by a descriptor. It contains the necessary properties for walking a CBFS to locate a file. The CBFS file is then decoupled from the CBFS descriptor in that it's no longer needed to access the contents of the file.
All of this is accomplished using the regions infrastructure by repsenting CBFS sources and files as region_devices. Because region_devices can be chained together forming subregions this allows one to decouple a CBFS source from a file. This also allows one to provide CBFS files that came from other sources for payload and/or stage loading.
The program loading takes advantage of those very properties by allowing multiple sources for locating a program. Because of this we can reduce the overhead of loading programs because it's all done in the common code paths. Only locating the program is per source.
Change-Id: I339b84fce95f03d1dbb63a0f54a26be5eb07f7c8 Signed-off-by: Aaron Durbin adurbin@chromium.org Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/9134 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Tested-by: Raptor Engineering Automated Test Stand noreply@raptorengineeringinc.com Reviewed-by: Patrick Georgi pgeorgi@google.com
See http://review.coreboot.org/9134 for details.
-gerrit