[coreboot] Need new type for CBFS

ron minnich rminnich at gmail.com
Mon Aug 10 00:14:50 CEST 2009


On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Thomas Jourdan<tjourdan at neuf.fr> wrote:

> "There is a 4th component type ,defined as NULL (0xFFFFFFFF). This is
> the "don't care" component type. This can be used when the component
> type is not necessary (such as when the name of the component is unique.
> i.e. option_table). It is recommended that all components be assigned a
> unique type, but NULL can be used when the type does not matter."

Nice catch! My apologies -- turns out we needed NULL for empty space
(this really cleaned things up) and this part of the doco is obsolete.
I'll take a patch to fix it.

ron




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