[coreboot] FILO creating filo.conf

[Joseph Smith]

On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:09:01 +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
<c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net> wrote:
> On 15.09.2008 22:32, Joseph Smith wrote:
>> On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:17:11 -0500, Alex Mauer <hawke at hawkesnest.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
>>>
>>>> Some legacy BIOSes seem to use that method. Stuffing a complete
> flashrom
>>>> binary there would be overkill, though.
>>>>
>>> He was talking about turning flashrom into a library.  I guess you'd
>>> have to ask him about the details though.
>>>
>> Well like I said earlier. Why not setup a small jffs2 filesystem in
> flash
>> to host filo.conf?
> 
> Code complexity and minimum size of jffs2 (5*eraseblocksize (64 kByte
> minimum) according to some tests) are the big problems here. Even if the
> code complexity was kept local, allocating 320 kByte of flash for
> filo.conf would be a showstopper. You may be able to get size
> requirements down with hacks and newer jffs2.
>
Wow that would be a showstopper. We would only need one block. I will look
into this futher.
>
> Still, a custom lightweight fs may be better. Or you reuse the no-erase
> LAR updating design I created some time ago. The benefit of that LAR
> variant is that is it backwards compatible (same struct and no code
> changes in lib/lar.c) and works regardless of block size.
> 
Hmm, I will look into this also. Is it a part of libpayload?
>
>> We would also have to add support for jffs2 to FILO. But
>>
> 
> So the JFFS2 code would live in a library? Sounds OK.
>
yes.

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Thanks,
Joseph Smith
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