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authorFrancis Rowe <info@gluglug.org.uk>2015-09-01 12:06:54 (EDT)
committer Francis Rowe <info@gluglug.org.uk>2015-09-01 12:06:54 (EDT)
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docs/tasks.html: note about coreboot version information
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(e.g. in the logs), which is currently lacking because libreboot deletes the .git directory
(because the git history contains the deleted blobs, so libreboot has to delete it). It could
just be a small patch that hardcodes the coreboot version information, for that coreboot version,
- each time libreboot rebases on a new version of coreboot.</li>
+ each time libreboot rebases on a new version of coreboot.<br/><br/>
+ patrickg says: francis7: we have you covered: have your libreboot script add a file ".coreboot-version" to the top-level directory, containing the appropriate version number information. that will be used if git describe doesn't work (eg. because .git is missing)
+ </li>
<li>Make memtest86+ build using coreboot's own crossgcc toolchain. Currently,
memtest86+ doesn't even work at all when cross-compiled using the toolchain in x86-64 trisquel7</li>
<li>