[coreboot] [PATCH] fix normal vs. fallback

Stefan Reinauer stefan.reinauer at coresystems.de
Fri Jul 9 11:02:02 CEST 2010


 On 7/8/10 8:09 PM, Myles Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Patrick Georgi <patrick at georgi-clan.de> wrote:
>> Am 08.07.2010 19:50, schrieb Myles Watson:
>>> BOOTBLOCK_NORMAL allows the user to use CMOS values to select which
>>> image to boot.  This patch:
>>>
>>> - makes BOOTBLOCK_NORMAL depend on USE_OPTION_TABLE
>> This would prevent the "old" scheme of building a fallback image (which
>> is built first) with BOOTBLOCK_NORMAL and _no_ USE_OPTION_TABLE (so it
>> uses the hardcoded defaults) and a normal image with USE_OPTION_TABLE.
> So I probably went too far.  I should have made it depend on HAVE_OPTION_TABLE.
Even though the normal/fallback mechanism uses CMOS, it does not require
an option table.
Are there advantages in changing this?

Stefan




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