Re: [coreboot] To bin or not to bin. was: Allow components to add files to CBFS

2010-12-17 Thread xdrudis
Warning: long, personal, philosophical, not even very original or insightful. Read at your leisure or not at all. On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 05:14:29AM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote: While that last conclusion might sound logical, loading something at runtime rather than onto a masked rom or

Re: [coreboot] To bin or not to bin. was: Allow components to add files to CBFS

2010-12-17 Thread Peter Stuge
xdrudis wrote: While the open source loving part of my soul might disagree, I firmly believe that we need to provide something that works before we can sit back and do philosophical discussions. Do you mean propietary BIOSes don't work ? I think what Stefan means is that it already takes

[coreboot] To bin or not to bin. was: Allow components to add files to CBFS

2010-12-15 Thread xdrudis
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:07:50PM +0100, Patrick Georgi wrote: Am Mittwoch, 15. Dezember 2010, um 20:17:18 schrieb Xavi Drudis Ferran: If the later I don't like the idea and at least I would like a huge warning BLOBS IN HERE !!! at the end of the make output. I avoid the term blob for two

Re: [coreboot] To bin or not to bin. was: Allow components to add files to CBFS

2010-12-15 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* xdrudis xdru...@tinet.cat [101216 01:53]: I don't care where it runs. For me it's more whether it's been derived from some other form and what's more useful to touch if you want to change it. There's also the question of whether it can be replaced, but if it couldn't it wouldn't be included,