rom image dates

Ronald G. Minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Thu Jan 16 11:43:00 CET 2003


On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, John Allen wrote:

> I noticed that the romimage files created by the linuxBIOS build do not 
> have a date in the last few bytes of the image.  I believe that most rom 
> images use this area to identify the date the rom was compiled.  Is 
> there a tool in the LinuxBIOS "arsenal" that can add the date to the 
> correct file, say linuxbios.rom, before performing the cat to get romimage?

If you want to send me the script to do it I'll set it up in the tree.

ron




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