[coreboot] Building 4.5 from release sources

[Aaron Durbin]

On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 3:28 PM, Trammell Hudson <hudson at trmm.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 06:34:42AM -0700, Trammell Hudson wrote:
>> When I build coreboot 4.5 from the release sources it is necessary
>> to download the coreboot-blobs-4.5.tar.xz file and it looks like there
>> might be a dependency now on the 3rdparty/vboot tree as well since
>> cbfs.h includes vb2_api.h [...]
>
> Ah, I see what happened.  My script fetched the tar file from the
> github release tag:
>
> https://github.com/coreboot/coreboot/archive/4.5.tar.gz
>
> Instead of fetching from the official release server:
>
> https://www.coreboot.org/releases/coreboot-4.5.tar.xz
>
> That's why the submodules are not included in the source tar.
>
> What's the distinction between coreboot/src/vboot and the
> coreboot/3rdparty/vboot directories?  As Peter pointed out,
> having the necessary headers self contained in the coreboot
> tree would be nice to have.
>

src/vboot calls into 3rdparty/vboot. src/vboot is the runtime binding
for the vboot implementation. That's orthogonal to the other utility
functions vboot supplies that the coreboot uses (hashing constructs).
I hope that helps.

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