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On 21.04.2009 23:54 Uhr, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
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Date: 2009-04-21 23:45:11 +0200 (Tue, 21 Apr 2009)
New Revision: 4155
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Modified:
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trunk/coreboot-v2/documentation/Makefile
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Update to this very old document
Signed-off-by: Stefan Reinauer <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:stepan@coresystems.de"><stepan@coresystems.de></a>
Acked-by: Stefan Reinauer <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:stepan@coresystems.de"><stepan@coresystems.de></a>
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Thanks for updating this!
I reviewed the commit and have a few minor comments. Would you mind
addressing them?</pre>
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Ok, another try.<br>
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The \texttt{driver} keyword adds an object file to the driver section of a
-LinuxBIOS image. This means it can be used by the PCI device
+coreboot�image. This means it can be used by the PCI device
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The character after coreboot looks strange. Intentional?
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fixed<br>
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-There used to be one image type for LinuxBIOS, as described above. Since this paper was written (2004) there have been many changes. First, the name
+There used to be one image type for coreboot, as described above. Since this paper was written (2004) there have been many changes. First, the name
was changed to coreboot, for many reasons. Second, Ying-Hai Liu, then of AMD, now of Sun, added Cache As Ram support (CAR) for many AMD CPUs, which both simplified and complicated things. Simplification came with the removal of romcc; complication came with the addition of new ways to build.
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I thought his name is Yinghai Lu, not Ying-Hai Liu.
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Absolutely. I removed the name all together, since we didn't mention
authors for other subsystem parts, either.<br>
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\begin{itemize}
- \item { \small
- \textit{\url{<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.linuxnetworx.com/products/linuxbios_white_paper.pdf">http://www.linuxnetworx.com/products/linuxbios_white_paper.pdf</a>}}
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Do we have a copy of that doc anywhere?</pre>
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Not me. <br>
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