Re: [LinuxBIOS] Expand linuxbiosv3 support

[Myles Watson]

This patch is Jordan's buildrom patch with a few additions, so I'm including
his original message:

[BUILDROM] Expand linuxbiosv3 support

Add more generic support for LinuxBIOSv3 - add specialized package
for v3, and add support for using LAR to put it all together.  Also
add expanded (and better) option ROM support, though we're not actually
using it right away.

Myles again:

It also changes LINUXBIOS variables to LBV2 unless they are used for both.  I
added dependencies between vendors that don't have any v3 platforms and
LINUXBIOS_V2.

One of the changes Jordan made was to always build v3 with no payload
and then add it later with any binary blobs that might be needed.
This way you can change them without rebuilding v3.

Signed-off-by: Myles Watson

[LinuxBIOS] Expand linuxbiosv3 support

[Myles Watson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Myles
> Watson
> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 2:21 PM
> To: Jordan Crouse; Linuxbios
> Subject: Re: Expand linuxbiosv3 support
>
> This patch is Jordan's buildrom patch with a few additions, so I'm
> including
> his original message:
>
> [BUILDROM] Expand linuxbiosv3 support
>
> Add more generic support for LinuxBIOSv3 - add specialized package
> for v3, and add support for using LAR to put it all together.  Also
> add expanded (and better) option ROM support, though we're not actually
> using it right away.
>
> Myles again:
>
> It also changes LINUXBIOS variables to LBV2 unless they are used for both.
> I
> added dependencies between vendors that don't have any v3 platforms and
> LINUXBIOS_V2.

I accidentally changed one instance of LINUXBIOS_ROM_NAME to LBV2_ROM_NAME,
which broke the v2 build. It's in linuxbios.inc.  I've fixed it in my tree
but decided to spare you another large patch for one tiny change.

Myles
> One of the changes Jordan made was to always build v3 with no payload
> and then add it later with any binary blobs that might be needed.
> This way you can change them without rebuilding v3.
>
> Signed-off-by: Myles Watson

[LinuxBIOS] Expand linuxbiosv3 support

[Jordan Crouse]

On 08/01/08 14:20 -0700, Myles Watson wrote:
> This patch is Jordan's buildrom patch with a few additions, so I'm including
> his original message:
>
> [BUILDROM] Expand linuxbiosv3 support
>
> Add more generic support for LinuxBIOSv3 - add specialized package
> for v3, and add support for using LAR to put it all together.  Also
> add expanded (and better) option ROM support, though we're not actually
> using it right away.
>
> Myles again:
>
> It also changes LINUXBIOS variables to LBV2 unless they are used for both.  I
> added dependencies between vendors that don't have any v3 platforms and
> LINUXBIOS_V2.
>
> One of the changes Jordan made was to always build v3 with no payload
> and then add it later with any binary blobs that might be needed.
> This way you can change them without rebuilding v3.
>
> Signed-off-by: Myles Watson

Acked-by: Jordan Crouse

Thanks.

[LinuxBIOS] Expand linuxbiosv3 support

[Jordan Crouse]

On 08/01/08 14:20 -0700, Myles Watson wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Myles Watson

I went ahead and comitted this (v90), so that Ward could refactor his
patch against it.

Jordan