[coreboot] [PATCH] Make tint (a tetris game) usable as payload

[Uwe Hermann]

Hi,

I'm happy to announce that libpayload is real-life suitable enough to be
able to run a Linux ncurses game (tint) as payload with only very small
changes to tint itself, just by linking against libpayload instead of libc.

Tint is BSD-licensed and can usually be downloaded from

  http://oasis.frogfoot.net/code/tint/download/0.03b/

but the site seems to be dead currently. You can get the tarball from
the Debian archives, though:

  http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/tint/tint_0.03b.tar.gz

A patch for making it usable as payload is attached, build instructions are at

  http://www.coreboot.org/Tint

and a ready-made QEMU image with coreboot v3 + libpayload + tint is
available here:

  http://www.coreboot.org/QEMU#coreboot_v3_.2B_libpayload_.2B_tint

The patch might need one or two improvements, but it basically works ok
with libpayload >= r3225. I'll post an updated version later.


I'm not sure if we want various "external" payloads in svn at all, and
if yes, whether they should be

 - a patch and README in payload/tint (for example), but not the tint
   code itself. The README would then describe how to wget the code,
   apply the patch and build the payload.

 - or the whole "upstream" code in payloads/tint plus our patch to make
   it work with libpayload.

Opinions?


Uwe.
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