[LinuxBIOS] Expand linuxbiosv3 support
Jordan Crouse
jordan.crouse at amd.com
Fri Jan 11 17:14:51 CET 2008
On 08/01/08 14:20 -0700, Myles Watson wrote:
> This patch is Jordan's buildrom patch with a few additions, so I'm including
> his original message:
>
> [BUILDROM] Expand linuxbiosv3 support
>
> Add more generic support for LinuxBIOSv3 - add specialized package
> for v3, and add support for using LAR to put it all together. Also
> add expanded (and better) option ROM support, though we're not actually
> using it right away.
>
> Myles again:
>
> It also changes LINUXBIOS variables to LBV2 unless they are used for both. I
> added dependencies between vendors that don't have any v3 platforms and
> LINUXBIOS_V2.
>
> One of the changes Jordan made was to always build v3 with no payload
> and then add it later with any binary blobs that might be needed.
> This way you can change them without rebuilding v3.
>
> Signed-off-by: Myles Watson <myles at pel.cs.byu.edu>
Acked-by: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse at amd.com>
Thanks.
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