RFC (again)

[steven james]

Greetings,

I have built a firmware chooser as a standalone elf image. Currently, it
only concerns itself with tagged ELF flash images, but there is no reason
it can't be generalized. The idea is that multiple choices of payloads are
pre-pended with a tag including a signature and an ascii description.

The chooser finds the tagged payloads and  presents a list of
descriptions for the user to select from.

Since I was doing that anyway, I put together a bare metal toolkit for
building elf payloads for LinuxBIOS (and other). It is composed of many
pieces of LinuxBIOS itself, bits of Etherboot, and a linker script.

The question: Although mostly composed OF LinuxBIOS, and certainly meant
for LinuxBIOS, it is standalone.

Does any of this belong in the LinuxBIOS tree? (utils, contrib, other)?

G'day,
sjames

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[Ronald G Minnich]

On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, steven james wrote:
> Does any of this belong in the LinuxBIOS tree? (utils, contrib, other)?

it seems to me that you have built a useful utility, so if you want to
name it, put a man page in there, and commit it, that would be fine by me.

ron

[Gregg C Levine]

Hello from Gregg C Levine
Well, ah, I can't think of any. For my part, you've put in everything it
needs, except the hardware itself.  Right now that is. Later? I won't
know until I try out Linux BIOS on an appropriate platform, and I'm
still selecting one of those.
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> Subject: RFC (again)
>
> Greetings,
>
> I have built a firmware chooser as a standalone elf image. Currently,
> it
> only concerns itself with tagged ELF flash images, but there is no
> reason
> it can't be generalized. The idea is that multiple choices of payloads
> are
> pre-pended with a tag including a signature and an ascii description.
>
> The chooser finds the tagged payloads and  presents a list of
> descriptions for the user to select from.
>
> Since I was doing that anyway, I put together a bare metal toolkit for
> building elf payloads for LinuxBIOS (and other). It is composed of
> many
> pieces of LinuxBIOS itself, bits of Etherboot, and a linker script.
>
> The question: Although mostly composed OF LinuxBIOS, and certainly
> meant
> for LinuxBIOS, it is standalone.
>
> Does any of this belong in the LinuxBIOS tree? (utils, contrib,
> other)?
>
> G'day,
> sjames

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