Re: rom image dates

[John Allen]

I am following a specific format used in most rom images where the date 
is in MM/DD/YY format starting 11 bytes from the end of the romimage.

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> John Allen  writes:
> > Ron, I whipped together this little script to add the date to linuxbios.rom. Its
> >
> > ugly but it seems to work.
>
> For what it is worth the build date is already recorded in the version string
> of LinuxBIOS, and is in the LinuxBIOS table.   At the end of the romimage
> if you include id.inc and id.lds you get the motherboard manufacturer and model
> at the end of the romimage.
>
> I would suggest simply prepending the date in the form to the data already
> present in id.inc, if you want to be able to get at it that way...
>
> Eric