[coreboot] via vt82c686 southbridge

[Daniel Lindenaar]

Ward Vandewege wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 09:41:47PM +0200, Daniel Lindenaar wrote:
>   
>> the log ends with:
>>
>> elfboot: Attempting to load payload.
>> rom_stream: 0xfffe0000 - 0xfffeffff
>> No header at 0
>> No header at 16
>> No header at 32
>> No header at 48
>> No header at 64
>> No header at 80
>> No header at 96
>> No header at 112
>> No header at 128
>> No header at 144
>> No header at 160
>> No header at 176
>> No header at 192
>> No header at 208
>> No header at 224
>> No header at 240
>> No header at 256
>> No header at 272
>> No header at 288
>> No header at 304
>> No header at 320
>> No header at 336
>> No header at 352
>> No header at 368
>> No header at 384
>> ---
>> snip
>> ---
>> No header at 8096
>> header_offset is -1
>> Can not load ELF Image.
>>
>> I was trying to use filo as a bootloader, but apparently something went  
>> wrong.
>>
>> any hints?
>>     
>
> Yes. Disable lzma compression for your filo payload, and it will work.
>
> What you see is coreboot not finding a proper lzma compressed filo payload,
> and falling back to trying to find an uncompressed payload. That fails.
>
> For some reason lzma-compressing filo and etherboot generates an invalid
> image; I have not investigated why yet.
>
> Thanks,
> Ward.
>   
hmmm... How do I do this? I've got:
export CONFIG_COMPRESSED_PAYLOAD_LZMA:=0

in Makefile.settings and the 'payload' file in the normal and fallback 
dirs looks like an ELF binary...

what do i need to set/do?

Thanks,
 Daniel