[coreboot] Questions about CBFS

ron minnich rminnich at gmail.com
Fri Aug 21 19:56:16 CEST 2009


On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Thomas Jourdan<tjourdan at neuf.fr> wrote:
>> I'll take that patch. It makes sense to fill the FLASH from the top down.
>
> My patch needs a little more work. File insertion is top down but file
> chain walk is still bottom up. This is bad because the file chain can
> easyly break. As a workaround I added a raw file search function : I
> search the FWH for CBFS file signature.

Nope. If the file chain can break, that's a bug. How did that happen?
The whole point
of adding empty space is to ensure it won't break.

ron




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