[coreboot] Where to find document for bayou.xml?

Marc Jones marcj303 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 8 19:40:36 CET 2010


On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:26 AM, jasonzhao <zhao_jian_li at yahoo.com.cn> wrote:
> hi Jordan,
> Do you have any document talking about how to write a BAYOU xml file,where to get it?
> Or, can you tell me where is wrong in the bayou.xml at below?
> Many thanks.
>
> I have a bios.bin.elf(seabios binary file) and coreinfo.elf included in my bayou.elf, so a bayou.xml is written based on bayou.xml.example, but BAYOU fails to parse it at run time:
> The serial output has some messy code, and the screen output only have "default chain" and "y"(keyboard can be used to choose, but pressing [return] has no response).
>
> Here are the details info:
>
> -------------bayou.xml.example-------------       -------------my bayou.xml-------------
> <BayouConfig>                                     <BayouConfig>
>  <global>                                        <global>
>    <timeout>10</timeout>                         <timeout>10</timeout>
>  </global>                                       </global>
>  <payloads>                                      <payloads>
>    <payload type="chain" flags="default">        <payload type="chain" flags="default">
>      <title>Default Chain</title>                <title>Default Chain</title>
>      <chain>                                           <chain>
>        <file>payloads/passwd.elf</file>                <file>bios.bin.elf</file>

Jason,

Has Bayou been updated to work with CBFS? I think that the payload
name in the xml should match the name as printed by "cbfstool
coreboot.rom print'.

Marc

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