Hi Bin,
On 11 March 2016 at 00:29, Bin Meng bmeng.cn@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Simon,
On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org wrote:
Intel has invented yet another binary blob which firmware is required to run. This is run after SDRAM is ready. It is linked to load at a particular address, typically 0, but is a relocatable ELF so can be moved if required.
This is really bad!
Add support for this in the build system. The file should be placed in the board directory, and called refcode.elf.
Is there any public documentation that explains this binary blob? Is this blob supposed to hide any top-secret of their chipset?! Why not just a single FSP binary? I fail to understand Intel's firmware strategy given they seem to actively promote FSP.
Not that i know of. Samus doesn't use FSP, although I suspect it might be possible. I'm really not sure which is worse.
I don't know if the chipset has top-secret stuff. It might just be that they don't want to release the source code, or spend lots of time writing documentation. I really don't know.
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Regards, Simon