rom image dates

[John Allen]

Ron, I whipped together this little script to add the date to 
linuxbios.rom. Its ugly but it seems to work.

#!/bin/sh
#rom_add_date

date +%D > date.bin
dd if=/dev/zero of=two.bin bs=2 count=1
dd if=linuxbios.rom of=linuxbios_pre_date.bin bs=`expr $1 - 11` count=1
rm -f linuxbios.rom
cat linuxbios_pre_date.bin date.bin two.bin > linuxbios.rom
rm -f two.bin
rm -f date.bin
rm -f linuxbios_pre_date.bin


I also have added a line under the linuxbios.rom heading in the makefile 
as follows.

linuxbios.rom: linuxbios.strip
   
    export size=`ls -l linuxbios.strip | (read p c u g size r ; echo 
$$size)` ; \
    echo $$size ; \
    dd if=linuxbios.strip of=linuxbios.rom bs=1 seek=`expr 
$(ROM_IMAGE_SIZE) - $$size`
    ./rom_add_date $(ROM_IMAGE_SIZE)

Do with it what you want. Its all yours.

John

Ronald G. Minnich wrote:

>On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, John Allen wrote:
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>>I noticed that the romimage files created by the linuxBIOS build do not 
>>have a date in the last few bytes of the image.  I believe that most rom 
>>images use this area to identify the date the rom was compiled.  Is 
>>there a tool in the LinuxBIOS "arsenal" that can add the date to the 
>>correct file, say linuxbios.rom, before performing the cat to get romimage?
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>If you want to send me the script to do it I'll set it up in the tree.
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>ron
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