On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 10:33:18AM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > > Todo > > ---- > > abuild -- needs discussion; will it work for v3 eventually? > > No, I think we want to migrate this to use Jordan's buildrom instead and > thus lower the complexity and number of tools that can be used to build > LinuxBIOS images. Less tools, better tools.
Good idea, I like it. So abuild stays in v2 for now? > > ADLO -- is/should be version-independant > > There was a patch floating around that integrates ADLO directly into v3, > with ADLO being the loader, not the payload. So the payload would be > rombios.bin. > > I think merging the few lines of ADLO code into LinuxBIOS v3 directly > makes a whole lot of sense. ADLO mostly consists of chipset specific > initialization that we do in LinuxBIOS in some way or the other already, > so it does not belong in the payload. Think of ADLO as an alternative to > the ELF loader. Yep, if ADLO is integral part of v3 that's even better. > > analysis > > Not sure if this is needed anymore. I think it has to do with used files > and dependencies. Drop it? Leave it in v2? > > buildrom -- not related to Jordan's buildrom? Needed in v2? > > It's v2 only -- It does "cat normal fallback > linuxbios.rom". So some > kind of predecessor of lar. Ok, stays in v2. > > dump_mmcr > > sc520 specific. I doubt we will ever need this outside of v2. AMD > replaced the SC520 series with Geode. So since I doubt v3 will ever have > sc520 support, this should stay and die with v2. Well, I wouldn't rule out SC520 support in v3. But will this tool be needed in v3 (if it ever has SC520 support)? > > getpir > > Not sure. We might want to keep it around, but I think it needs some > work. Yes, definately, but it's already useful today and I think it's version-independant so it should go into util/. > > lbtdump -- Do we need this at all? Can't lxbios do the same? > > I added this when lxbios was not part of the tree. We can let this > bit rot in the v2 tree, but lets not move it on. OK. Does lxbios support everything lbtdump does? If so I'd even say we remove it. > > mptable > > same as getpir Yep, should go into util/, IMO. > > probe_superio > > yeah this one! Agreed. > > resetcf > > This needs to be integrated in FILO or even better GRUB2 and should > probably not be moved on. OK. So here's the updated plan: - Move probe_superio to util/superio-detect (rename it while we're at it). - Move getpir to util/. - Move mptable to util/. Everything else stays where it is. Looks good? Uwe. -- http://www.hermann-uwe.de | http://www.holsham-traders.de http://www.crazy-hacks.org | http://www.unmaintained-free-software.org
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