On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 09:34:55PM +0000, Brendan Trotter wrote:
Sorry for the interruption, but...
All input is valuable!
On 2/9/08, ron minnich rminnich@gmail.com wrote: There's only 2 things coreboot is missing. The first is an inbuilt "update payload from <device>" utility
This is basically the problem of flash chips still being too small.
The second thing that's missing is a "payload specification"
This has come up before. We would very much appreciate help from anyone who has ideas about such a specification.
(with backward compatability) that allows payloads to be written by anyone that always work reliably without any compatability problems.
I don't think this is really possible though. Even the C programming language changes over time. I agree with you that specifications should be very stable, but I believe it is impossible to create one that "always" works. At some point this will become a re-invention of OpenFirmware. Please prove me wrong though! :)
//Peter