[PATCH] Make tint (a tetris game) usable as payload

[Uwe Hermann]

Hi,

I'm happy to announce that libpayload is real-life suitable enough to be
able to run a Linux ncurses game (tint) as payload with only very small
changes to tint itself, just by linking against libpayload instead of libc.

Tint is BSD-licensed and can usually be downloaded from

http://oasis.frogfoot.net/code/tint/download/0.03b/

but the site seems to be dead currently. You can get the tarball from
the Debian archives, though:

http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/tint/tint_0.03b.tar.gz

A patch for making it usable as payload is attached, build instructions are at

http://www.coreboot.org/Tint

and a ready-made QEMU image with coreboot v3 + libpayload + tint is
available here:

http://www.coreboot.org/QEMU#coreboot_v3_.2B_libpayload_.2B_tint

The patch might need one or two improvements, but it basically works ok
with libpayload >= r3225. I'll post an updated version later.

I'm not sure if we want various "external" payloads in svn at all, and
if yes, whether they should be

- a patch and README in payload/tint (for example), but not the tint
   code itself. The README would then describe how to wget the code,
   apply the patch and build the payload.

- or the whole "upstream" code in payloads/tint plus our patch to make
   it work with libpayload.

Opinions?

Uwe.

[Peter Stuge]

On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 03:04:06AM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote:
> Opinions?

Lovely!

//Peter

Quoting Peter Stuge :
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 03:04:06AM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote:
> > Opinions?
>
> Lovely!

Yeh, I think it is pretty cool also, who know's where this could  
go.......coreboot as firmware for a game console?

Thanks - Joe

Make tint (a tetris game) usable as payload

[Jordan Crouse]

On 09/04/08 03:04 +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm happy to announce that libpayload is real-life suitable enough to be
> able to run a Linux ncurses game (tint) as payload with only very small
> changes to tint itself, just by linking against libpayload instead of libc.
>
> Tint is BSD-licensed and can usually be downloaded from
>
> http://oasis.frogfoot.net/code/tint/download/0.03b/
>
> but the site seems to be dead currently. You can get the tarball from
> the Debian archives, though:
>
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/tint/tint_0.03b.tar.gz
>
> A patch for making it usable as payload is attached, build instructions are at
>
> http://www.coreboot.org/Tint
>
> and a ready-made QEMU image with coreboot v3 + libpayload + tint is
> available here:
>
> http://www.coreboot.org/QEMU#coreboot_v3_.2B_libpayload_.2B_tint
>
> The patch might need one or two improvements, but it basically works ok
> with libpayload >= r3225. I'll post an updated version later.
>
> I'm not sure if we want various "external" payloads in svn at all, and
> if yes, whether they should be
> a patch and README in payload/tint (for example), but not the tint
> code itself. The README would then describe how to wget the code,
> apply the patch and build the payload.

I vote for this one.  If all goes to plan, we'll have dozens and 
dozens of payloads - I'm not sure if we want to maintain them all.
Buildrom can easily handle the details.

Jordan