[coreboot] FILO creating filo.conf

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Mon Sep 15 23:09:01 CEST 2008


On 15.09.2008 22:32, Joseph Smith wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:17:11 -0500, Alex Mauer <hawke at hawkesnest.net>
> wrote:
>   
>> Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
>>     
>>> Some legacy BIOSes seem to use that method. Stuffing a complete flashrom
>>> binary there would be overkill, though.
>>>       
>> He was talking about turning flashrom into a library.  I guess you'd
>> have to ask him about the details though.
>>     
> Well like I said earlier. Why not setup a small jffs2 filesystem in flash
> to host filo.conf?

Code complexity and minimum size of jffs2 (5*eraseblocksize (64 kByte
minimum) according to some tests) are the big problems here. Even if the
code complexity was kept local, allocating 320 kByte of flash for
filo.conf would be a showstopper. You may be able to get size
requirements down with hacks and newer jffs2.
Still, a custom lightweight fs may be better. Or you reuse the no-erase
LAR updating design I created some time ago. The benefit of that LAR
variant is that is it backwards compatible (same struct and no code
changes in lib/lar.c) and works regardless of block size.

> We would also have to add support for jffs2 to FILO. But
>   

So the JFFS2 code would live in a library? Sounds OK.


Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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