[coreboot] Change to use CBFS - Help needed

[Harrison, Jon (SELEX GALILEO, UK)]

Hey, thanks. That's the nugget of info I needed to get going again ... I
think!! 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Georgi [mailto:patrick at georgi-clan.de] 
> Sent: 18 August 2009 13:34
> To: Harrison, Jon (SELEX GALILEO, UK)
> Cc: coreboot at coreboot.org
> Subject: Re: [coreboot] Change to use CBFS - Help needed
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> Am 18.08.2009 13:26, schrieb Harrison, Jon (SELEX GALILEO, UK):
> > I really don't have the time or inclination to get into a protracted
> > re-structuring of the code right now, after all the effort 
> it's taken to
> > get to this point. I'm looking for the quick hack option 
> that'll get me
> > up and running again. If I knew how to locate and find the 
> binary data
> > in flash then I could more or less preserve my current 
> infrastructure
> > and worry about making it more coreboot friendly later.
> >    
> Sure, working code is always better than non-working code :-)
> You can explicitely copy an optionrom to RAM using 
> cbfs_load_optionrom(vendor, device, destination address);
> Choose some unused vid/did pair (vendor 0xffff should be a 
> safe choice), 
> add the files using the pci_rom statement in Config.lb, and use that 
> function to load the images to where you want them.
> 
> If you need the ROM address of a cbfs file, cbfs_find(filename) is 
> useful, but you'll have to skip over the file's header. 
> Something like:
> cbfs_file *f = cbfs_find(filename);
> uchar *romaddr = (char*)f+(f->offset);
> should do the trick.
> 
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Patrick
> 
> 
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