New patch to review for coreboot: e4fc528 Add the memory reference code binary for sandybridge chipsets

[Ronald G. Minnich]

Ronald G. Minnich ([e-mail]) just uploaded a new patch set to gerrit, which you can find at http://review.coreboot.org/897

-gerrit

commit e4fc5283d5c2e5fe8f75875a8229319696f8990b
Author: Ron Minnich 
Date:   Thu Apr 12 04:26:22 2012 -0700

Add the memory reference code binary for sandybridge chipsets

This binary is required for anyone who wishes to build a
    sandybridge mainboard.

Change-Id: I779ef5e2b77166b81cb05eada37291368e74fbb6
    Signed-off-by: Ron Minnich 
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 3rdparty/northbridge/intel/sandybridge/mrc.bin |  Bin 0 -> 102932 bytes
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/3rdparty/northbridge/intel/sandybridge/mrc.bin b/3rdparty/northbridge/intel/sandybridge/mrc.bin
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..eec64ed
Binary files /dev/null and b/3rdparty/northbridge/intel/sandybridge/mrc.bin differ

New patch to review for coreboot: e4fc528 Add the memory reference code binary for sandybridge chipsets

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

Am 14.04.2012 01:11 schrieb Ronald G. Minnich ([e-mail]):
> commit e4fc5283d5c2e5fe8f75875a8229319696f8990b
> Author: Ron Minnich 
> Date:   Thu Apr 12 04:26:22 2012 -0700
> Add the memory reference code binary for sandybridge chipsets
>
> This binary is required for anyone who wishes to build a
> sandybridge mainboard.
>
> Change-Id: I779ef5e2b77166b81cb05eada37291368e74fbb6
> Signed-off-by: Ron Minnich <[e-mail]>
>
> 3rdparty/northbridge/intel/sandybridge/mrc.bin |  Bin 0 -> 102932 bytes

I hope this is not going into the main repository, but into some
separate repository instead.
Right now we can tell people that all code in our official git
repository is GPL-compatible, and I'd like to keep it that way.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

New patch to review for coreboot: e4fc528 Add the memory reference code binary for sandybridge chipsets

[ron minnich]

On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 3:12 AM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
 wrote:
> I hope this is not going into the main repository, but into some
> separate repository instead.
> Right now we can tell people that all code in our official git
> repository is GPL-compatible, and I'd like to keep it that way.

We maintain GPL V2 compatibility as this is a blob that is placed into
cbfs. There is no linking.

I don't see it as different from what we do today with microcode,
which has been in the coreboot tree for many years now. While that
code is in "source" form in some sense, it really is a binary blob. We
would not have wanted to force people to maintain all that as as
separate repo.

Hope that helps. I'd like to make sandybridge support as convenient as possible.

thanks

ron