[coreboot] SPD binaries in coreboot

Martin Roth gaumless at gmail.com
Fri Oct 23 19:09:43 CEST 2015


I don't think it's really very similar at all.  The bootblock output
can change drastically based on Kconfig settings.  Am I missing
something?

On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Nico Huber <nico.h at gmx.de> wrote:
> On 23.10.2015 18:32, Martin Roth wrote:
>>> So, is there a third option that I'm missing? Other opinions?
>>>>> The third option would be a plain text format which is easy to parse
>>>>> but still covers the spec well.
>>
>> I'd say that we should store the SPDs as binaries - these are easy to
>> use at build time, and there's no reason to build them every time.
>> They change, but infrequently.  Then we need a better tool.
> That would also apply to a bootblock that needs a specific assembler or
> romcc. Would you distribute that as a binary too?
>
> Nico



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