the following patch was just integrated into master: commit 113a3668489507f5b14ccea4daae0216021bf228 Author: Vladimir Serbinenko phcoder@gmail.com Date: Thu Nov 14 12:10:08 2013 +0100
Add GRUB2 payload to build system
Since a long time GRUB 2 is a viable payload alternative to SeaBIOS and FILO. So make it easy for coreboot users to use GRUB 2 as a payload by integrating it into coreboot’s build system, so it can be selected in Kconfig.
As the last GRUB 2 release 2.00 is too old and has several bugs when used as a coreboot payload only allow to build GRUB 2 master until a new GRUB release is done. The downside is, that accidental breakage in GRUB’s upstream does not affect coreboot users.
Currently the GRUB 2 payload is built with the default modules which results in an uncompressed size of around 730 kB. Compressed it has a size of 340 kB, so it should be useable with 512 kB flash ROMs.
Tested with QEMU.
Change-Id: Ie75d5a2cb230390cd5a063d5f6a5d5e3fab6b354 Signed-off-by: Vladimir Serbinenko phcoder@gmail.com Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/4058 Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Reviewed-by: Stefan Reinauer stefan.reinauer@coreboot.org
See http://review.coreboot.org/4058 for details.
-gerrit