Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] Re-enable option table for the ASUS MEW-VM and fix build

[Stefan Reinauer]

Peter Stuge wrote:
> Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> > Any format or data structure will suffer from cut and paste frenzy
> > ...
>
> Only if data is _required_. If there are defaults, and local changes
> are possible but optional, there's no reason to copypaste.

Oh, yes... but the general simplicity does not decrease by adding config
file inheritance.

People will assume wrong files they inherit from, or have conflicts
between different parents and childs.  Now they have a few copy and
pasted extra entries, that do nothing, if the board porter was not very
thorough.

Stefan