Hello,
What do you think about enhancing abuild to optionally support building ROM images containing payloads?
For example, we could compile all the currently available payloads and create images ready to be used for all the supported boards, so that users only need to fetch the desired image and burn it. The images could be created either with payload compressed/uncompressed, and so on.
The payloads that take a lot of time to compile or make, like LAB or its derivations (AVATT, LBDistro, etc.) could be provided as binary blobs and downloaded at runtime, but any other payload could be downloaded also if the abuild user wants not to compile them by himself.
Payloads like bayou could be pre-configured to contain a couple of variations of possible appealing setups, like coreinfo+FILO.
Cristi
Cristi Magherusan schrieb:
What do you think about enhancing abuild to optionally support building ROM images containing payloads?
There's buildrom for that. If you only want to build a whole set of images with a single given payload, look at abuild's "-p" option.
Also, I'm not sure if time is well spent on big enhancements to the current build infrastructure as it's supposed to be deprecated soonish.
Patrick
On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 09:16 +0200, Patrick Georgi wrote:
Cristi Magherusan schrieb:
What do you think about enhancing abuild to optionally support building ROM images containing payloads?
There's buildrom for that. If you only want to build a whole set of images with a single given payload, look at abuild's "-p" option.
Okay.
Also, I'm not sure if time is well spent on big enhancements to the current build infrastructure as it's supposed to be deprecated soonish.
Sure, I overlooked this aspect, but when the new buildsystem is in place it would be nice if we could do it so that the users will be able to try coreboot easier and get real functionality in a few seconds.
Cristi
On 7/27/09 4:59 AM, Cristi Magherusan wrote:
Hello,
What do you think about enhancing abuild to optionally support building ROM images containing payloads?
That's possible with the current abuild. You can for example
svn co svn://coreboot.org/testsystem/coreboot-payloads util/abuild/abuild -p $PWD/coreboot-payloads
and abuild will run a script inside coreboot-payloads to find out which payload to add to a given mainboard.
Stefan
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 4:57 AM, Stefan Reinauerstepan@coresystems.de wrote:
On 7/27/09 4:59 AM, Cristi Magherusan wrote:
Hello,
What do you think about enhancing abuild to optionally support building ROM images containing payloads?
That's possible with the current abuild. You can for example
svn co svn://coreboot.org/testsystem/coreboot-payloads util/abuild/abuild -p $PWD/coreboot-payloads
and abuild will run a script inside coreboot-payloads to find out which payload to add to a given mainboard.
Stefan
sound like we need this question and answer on the wiki
ron
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