[coreboot] Building AMD Persimmon in MinGW

[Idwer Vollering]

2013/5/6 Wim Vervoorn <wvervoorn at eltan.com>:
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> I am trying to build CoreBoot from Windows using MingGW.
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> After downloading the latest version of the complete package to enable this
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> As this package contains an old version of the tree I updated this to the
> latest one. After doing this it’s not possible to build the Persimmon tree
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> In the latest CoreBoot version the Persimmon tree uses the nvramtool.exe to
> generate “option_table.h”. When this is started I get a “nvramtool.exe has
> stopped working message” is anyone familiar with that? Is there a solution
> for this so I can get the tree building with the latest version as well?

My guess is that nvramtool won't work on any Windows build since
Windows most likely blocks CMOS (nvram) access.
Most developers are using Linux; if you are in dire need of a
persimmon coreboot.rom: please say so (I or someone else can send you
one off-list).

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> Best regards,
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> Wim Vervoorn
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