[coreboot] [PATCH] cbfs, smaller api, more types

Peter Stuge peter at stuge.se
Sat Feb 27 15:57:42 CET 2010


Patrick Georgi wrote:
> I intend to add a header for option roms "real soon now",

Peter Stuge wrote:
> I know there are cases when it's handy to inspect the type, but
> unless the type is the _only_ thing that matters it isn't so
> intuitive to have one at all.

So maybe we should restrict CBFS types to a few that actually matters
for consumers and not use CBFS types to describe the purpose of the
file?

Ie. vsa, bootsplash and microcode are all blobs, while payloads may
not be if they are stored with each segment as an individual file.


//Peter




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