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

[Simon Glass]

Hi Bin,


On 11 November 2014 18:17, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Yes that sounds right.

Regards,
Simon