rom image dates

[John Allen]

I am following a specific format used in most rom images where the date 
is in MM/DD/YY format starting 11 bytes from the end of the romimage.

Eric W. Biederman wrote:

>John Allen <jallen at integraltech.com> writes:
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>>Ron, I whipped together this little script to add the date to linuxbios.rom. Its
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>>ugly but it seems to work.
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>For what it is worth the build date is already recorded in the version string
>of LinuxBIOS, and is in the LinuxBIOS table.   At the end of the romimage
>if you include id.inc and id.lds you get the motherboard manufacturer and model
>at the end of the romimage.
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>I would suggest simply prepending the date in the form to the data already
>present in id.inc, if you want to be able to get at it that way...
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>Eric
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