[coreboot-gerrit] Patch merged into coreboot/master: a15cd66 sandybridge: Make build possible without descriptor.bin

[gerrit at coreboot.org]

the following patch was just integrated into master:
commit a15cd66b9ecba4033ec4ccf767847876236af70b
Author: Nico Huber <nico.huber at secunet.com>
Date:   Wed Jun 19 16:16:05 2013 +0200

    sandybridge: Make build possible without descriptor.bin
    
    On newer Intel systems, the flash ROM is shared between the host
    processor (BIOS), it's Management Engine (ME) and an integrated ethernet
    controller (GbE). The layout of the flash ROM (and other information) is
    kept in the so called Intel Firmware Descriptor (IFD). If we only want
    to build coreboot to update the BIOS section, all we need is the flash
    layout.
    
    This patch adds the option to specify the flash layout in the
    mainboard's Kconfig, and thus, to build without the real IFD. However,
    with such a build, one has to make sure that the IFD section on the
    flash ROM won't be written over (nor any other section that hasn't been
    included by coreboot). A patch to write selected sections of a flash ROM
    with IFD has been sent to the flashrom mailing list [1].
    
    [1] http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2013-June/011083.html
    
    Change-Id: Ia23e439a00a197fb54852263f8e206f16c3e8851
    Signed-off-by: Nico Huber <nico.huber at secunet.com>
    Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/3524
    Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <paulepanter at users.sourceforge.net>
    Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
    Reviewed-by: Ronald G. Minnich <rminnich at gmail.com>


See http://review.coreboot.org/3524 for details.

-gerrit