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

[Bin Meng]

Hi Simon,

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 12:11 AM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> Hi Bin,
>
> On 11 November 2014 01:37, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Simon,
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>>> Hi Bin,
>>>
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>>>
>>>>> +               $(srctree)/board/$(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?
>
> Yes, but only if there is a management engine (the CONFIG option you asked for).

So we need bundle the descriptor.bin and me.bin together with a CONFIG
option, and has better documentation to describe this.

[snip]

Regards,
Bin