[coreboot] v3 build process and lar flags

Myles Watson mylesgw at gmail.com
Thu Feb 21 20:55:38 CET 2008


> From: ron minnich [mailto:rminnich at gmail.com]
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Myles Watson <mylesgw at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >  > From: ron minnich [mailto:rminnich at gmail.com]
> >
> > > I think we might want a pass for 'lar z' as well.
> >
> >  What would that be?
> 
> just say:
> lar z build/bios.bin
> 
> it zero-fills the lar and makes booting dramatically faster.

Wouldn't this break buildrom if someone had that enabled automatically, then
tried to add a payload?

Maybe zero-filled segments of lar files could be resized?

I think to do this right it deserves a separate patch.

Myles






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