[coreboot] [PATCH]Allow components to add files to CBFS

Joseph Smith joe at settoplinux.org
Wed Dec 15 17:20:33 CET 2010


On 12/15/2010 11:04 AM, Peter Stuge wrote:
> Great idea in general.
>
> Patrick Georgi wrote:
>> filename-position
>
> This one is tricky. Blobs may need to have alignment, a negative
> offset (ie. start at end of flash - $amount) rather than a positive,
> etc. How could we handle those cases?
>
>
> //Peter
>
Ah, great point Peter! The MBI binary bolb modules ***-have-*** to be 
aligned in order for the VGA Bios to read them, other wise they are 
useless blobs of crap, and the VGA Bios is smart enough to know that and 
reject them.

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Thanks,
Joseph Smith
Set-Top-Linux
www.settoplinux.org




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