[coreboot] [PATCH] Drop all pre-CBFS rom_address entries in Config.lb/devicetree.cb

[Myles Watson]

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 12:25 PM, ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Myles Watson <mylesgw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I meant should "onboard" devices be the only ones allowed to have ROMs in
> > CBFS, but I can see that that wasn't right either.  It just seems like
> when
> > we made the change to CBFS we allowed a lot more devices to have ROMs in
> > CBFS, and I was wondering if that was intentional, or a side-effect.
>
> from my point of view, it fixed a problem that we also fixed in v3 --
> it was really, really hard to have lots of ROM images in coreboot
> before we went to LAR/CBFS. So we fixed a shortcoming.
>
> It was incredibly painful (IMHO) to add rom images before we got CBFS.
>
> What's interesting is we can even add (e.g.) an upgraded ROM image to
> CBFS that might over-ride the ROM image on an add-in card. Hence you
> can "upgrade" the rom image on a card without having to reflash the
> card -- just put it in CBFS. We've never done this but the possibility
> is there.
>

Great.  I just wanted to make sure we didn't need onboard any more.

Uwe:
Acked-by: Myles Watson <mylesgw at gmail.com>

Thanks,
Myles
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