Julius, Julius Werner wrote: > >> Whenever I want a build without vboot I get really annoyed about this > >> hardcoded dependency, even when vboot is disabled in Kconfig. > >> > >> Would a patch to make the dependency conditional on Kconfig get accepted? > > > > I should hope so, though I recommend starting a new thread to see if > > experts on vboot can chime in and explain why this is or isn't a good idea. > > vboot is used for more than just boot verification these days, we use > it as a sort of generic crypto toolbox for all of coreboot's crypto > needs (because it wouldn't make sense to implement, say, SHA-256 > algorithms twice). For host utilities in particular, some of these are > needed in cbfstool (e.g. for the --hash-algorithm parameter to add a > hash attribute to a file), and there is no Kconfig cbfstool so you > can't just configure it out if you don't need it.
It is clear that I don't need that functionality when I build a coreboot version without any vboot code, right? Note that I'm not talking about anything gcc, my question can indeed be considered a tangent of the original thread. Thanks //Peter _______________________________________________ coreboot mailing list -- coreboot@coreboot.org To unsubscribe send an email to coreboot-le...@coreboot.org
