[coreboot] patch: add support for blobs; example SMM blob included
Stefan Reinauer
stepan at coresystems.de
Thu Nov 27 00:49:39 CET 2008
ron minnich wrote:
>> I remember discussing blobs being sort-of stage3/4. Do we call them
>> that instead?
>>
>>
>
> no, that makes no sense. Blobs are all over. VSA blob is in stage1.
> SMM is installed in stage2 phase 6. They are not classifiable.
>
I don't particularly get excited about the name "blob", either. In the
lar, everything is a blob, unless we pack a text file in there.
Can we find a better name?
3rd-party?
smm should just be in the main "directory" it's not more a blob than
stage2 is.
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