[LinuxBIOS] State of the buildrom

yhlu yinghailu at gmail.com
Fri Nov 30 09:20:13 CET 2007


On Nov 29, 2007 4:31 PM, Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse at amd.com> wrote:
> On 29/11/07 13:58 -0800, ron minnich wrote:
> > jordan, for SiS we really need to get the point of having an
> > normal/fallback LAB payload that runs in 2 MB, one MB for each one.
> >
> > how hard is this? Does buildrom do fallback in general? I thought it did not.
>
>
> buildrom doesn't do fallback in general.  Technically its not very hard,
> but it isn't very generic - there is a lot of platform specific thinking
> that needs to happen, and that adds further complexity.  Especially if you
> want to be able to turn it on and off by configuration.

so it should be
payload + normal + fallback + failover
or
payload_normal + normal + payload_fallback + failover
or
payload + unfied_normal_fallback + failover

better to put uncompresser into payload again.

YH




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