[coreboot] #137: S2895 no function after coreboot 2 flash

Myles Watson mylesgw at gmail.com
Tue May 19 20:55:19 CEST 2009


On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Ward Vandewege <ward at gnu.org> wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:42:18PM -0600, Myles Watson wrote:
>>
>> > At any rate, Myles, maybe you should bump the coreboot rev for s2895
>> > in buildrom to the one you have confirmed working?
>> I always argued for buildrom using the latest version of Coreboot.  In this
>> case the payload (SeaBIOS) continued to evolve.
>
> Yeah - but having a 'known good' combination in buildrom is quite useful too.
That's what I'm saying.  Since we don't have SeaBIOS versioned (we
would have had to bump it many times since January), It wasn't known
good anymore.  I don't see an easy solution since we have so few
buildrom users to scream when things break.

>> I guess there's no good way around bit rot.  I'm hoping that we'll continue
>> to improve the v2 build process enough that there will be no need for
>> buildrom except to build payloads.
>
> Yep. I want to/need to take a stab at converting buildrom to use CBFS. Ah,
> time...
:)

Thanks,
Myles




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