On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Myles Watson mylesgw@gmail.com wrote:
I meant should "onboard" devices be the only ones allowed to have ROMs in CBFS, but I can see that that wasn't right either. It just seems like when we made the change to CBFS we allowed a lot more devices to have ROMs in CBFS, and I was wondering if that was intentional, or a side-effect.
from my point of view, it fixed a problem that we also fixed in v3 -- it was really, really hard to have lots of ROM images in coreboot before we went to LAR/CBFS. So we fixed a shortcoming.
It was incredibly painful (IMHO) to add rom images before we got CBFS.
What's interesting is we can even add (e.g.) an upgraded ROM image to CBFS that might over-ride the ROM image on an add-in card. Hence you can "upgrade" the rom image on a card without having to reflash the card -- just put it in CBFS. We've never done this but the possibility is there.
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