[U-Boot] [PATCH 19/39] x86: Build a .rom file which can be flashed to an x86 machine

[Bin Meng]

Hi Simon,

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> Hi Bin,
>

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>>
>>> +               $(srctree)/board/$(BOARDDIR)/descriptor.bin
>>
>> I don't see where the descriptor.bin is created?
>
> This needs to be downloaded and provided, as with mrc.bin, etc.

I thought the descriptor.bin is used to describe the u-boot.rom
layout, but seems you are saying it is coming from Intel(?). Is the
format defined by Intel so that all the BIOS for that platform
(u-boot.rom in our case) has to obey?

> I think I will adjust it (later) so that it builds an empty u-boot.rom
> and prints a warning on stdout if the binaries are not available. That
> way the buildman build will still succeed, but the user will see the
> problem. It might also be useful to have U-Boot report missing
> binaries when it starts up.

Sounds good.

Regards,
Bin