[coreboot] [PATCH]Disable failover in K8 based boards

Myles Watson mylesgw at gmail.com
Wed Aug 12 22:02:13 CEST 2009


> > My understanding was that we wanted to go the other way and have all
> > boards have failover.
> Kconfig doesn't support >1 image per build right now. This merely moves
> abuild to the same state, to simplify development.

If Koenig doesn't support fallback and normal yet, maybe that should come
first.

> We might want to have "something like failover". We might want to have
> "something like fallback and normal". But we will have to reconsider
> what exactly we want.
I like the cleanliness of having the early setup and image selection done
separately.  It made the s2895 code much easier for me to follow.

> In my opinion such changes are easier if the tree is as uniform as
> possible. 
Agreed.

> Right now, there's failover style (k8 and fam10) and
> fallback/normal style (everything else). Moving from the latter to the
> former is harder than the other way around.

In general removing features is easier than adding them.  Will this make it
easier to add it later?

Thanks,
Myles






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