Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] fix normal vs. fallback

[Stefan Reinauer]

On 7/8/10 8:09 PM, Myles Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Patrick Georgi  wrote:
> > Am 08.07.2010 19:50, schrieb Myles Watson:
> > > BOOTBLOCK_NORMAL allows the user to use CMOS values to select which
> > > image to boot.  This patch:
> > > makes BOOTBLOCK_NORMAL depend on USE_OPTION_TABLE
> >
> > This would prevent the "old" scheme of building a fallback image (which
> > is built first) with BOOTBLOCK_NORMAL and _no_ USE_OPTION_TABLE (so it
> > uses the hardcoded defaults) and a normal image with USE_OPTION_TABLE.
>
> So I probably went too far.  I should have made it depend on HAVE_OPTION_TABLE.

Even though the normal/fallback mechanism uses CMOS, it does not require
an option table.
Are there advantages in changing this?

Stefan