[coreboot] blobs

Marc Jones marcj303 at gmail.com
Thu Apr 19 18:28:51 CEST 2012


On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se> wrote:
> Marc Jones wrote:
>> Also, we should talk about how this gets pulled in with the coreboot
>> tree. Should/could the coreboot make/kconfig pull in the blobs repo?
>> Should we use git submodules or subtree merge?  Any git expert
>> comments?
>
> I suggest to use exactly the same method that we have developed for
> when SeaBIOS is selected as payload in coreboot Kconfig.
>
> That method is absolutely reliable, and means that the files will
> never be downloaded until the first time that the user chooses to
> build coreboot for a mainboard where they are actually needed.
>
> The commit hash of a known good commit in the binaries repository
> would be committed into the coreboot repository in the Kconfig file
> for the mainboard.
>

Yes, This was my thought as well.

Marc

>
> //Peter
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