the following patch was just integrated into master: commit 413b0d98462dc877cc53355f425923c116bb490c Author: Nico Huber nico.huber@secunet.com Date: Wed Jun 19 12:41:19 2013 +0200
ifdfake - Create an IFD with just a section layout
This new tool called `ifdfake` just creates an empty Intel Firmware Descriptor (IFD) and writes the IFD signature plus the section layout given on the command line.
usage: ifdfake [(-b|-m|-g|-p) <start>:<end>]... <output file>
-b | --bios <start>:<end> BIOS region -m | --me <start>:<end> Intel ME region -g | --gbe <start>:<end> Gigabit Ethernet region -p | --platform <start>:<end> Platform Data region -h | --help print this help
<start> and <end> bounds are given in Bytes, the <end> bound is inclusive. All regions must be multiples of 4K in size and 4K aligned. The descriptor region always resides in the first 4K.
An IFD created with ifdfake won't work as a replacement for a real IFD. Never try to flash such an IFD to your board!
The output of ifdfake can be utilized to build an image with just the later added sections (like coreboot itself) being valid. The resulting image can then be partially written to a machines flash ROM to just update coreboot (i.e. the BIOS section).
Change-Id: I925b47cab5c6d490a79d684bdd7a7a45ac442640 Signed-off-by: Nico Huber nico.huber@secunet.com Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/3523 Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Reviewed-by: Ronald G. Minnich rminnich@gmail.com
See http://review.coreboot.org/3523 for details.
-gerrit