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Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli 6fa9af30ad
Remove images with the seabios_grubfirst main payload. 
The seabios_grubfirst images provides the same functionality than the
GRUB images, but instead of having GRUB being loaded directly by
Coreboot, Coreboot loads SeaBIOS which then loads GRUB.

These images probably exist to enable end users to try it to workaround
potential compatibility issues between the OS and GRUB with the GRUB
image as we have a BIOS implementation being loaded.

While this looks useful, it also makes things more complicated:

- It increase the number of images to choose from, and it's
  complicated to explain the difference between grub and
  seabios_grubfirst to end users.

  For instance for the "x200_8mb", users need to choose between 2 GPU
  modes (corebootfb, or txtmode) and 12 keyboard layouts. So having to
  choose between 2 payloads instead of 3 with one difference that is
  hard to understand makes things easier.

- It makes testing more complicated as we have one more payload to
  test and we also need to make sure to always differenciate both
  images in bug reports, documentation, etc.

And if issues arise from this change in the future, we could work with
upstream to fix them and/or replace the grub images with
'seabios_grubfirst' while keeping the 'grub' name to avoid
complicating things by having two main payloads with identical
features.

Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
neox: fixed typos in commit message
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
 		2024-10-05 11:32:14 +02:00
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cbutils Switch to packages structure. 2023-12-06 17:14:14 +01:00
coreboot build system: wrap git commands. 2024-09-08 17:18:53 +02:00
crossgcc Switch to packages structure. 2023-12-06 17:14:14 +01:00
dependencies packages: dependencies: fix distribution detection for Trisquel 10. 2023-12-11 11:38:41 +01:00
descriptors packages: descriptors: add tests. 2024-09-08 17:13:06 +02:00
gnuboot-source build system: wrap git commands. 2024-09-08 17:18:53 +02:00
grub build system: wrap git commands. 2024-09-08 17:18:53 +02:00
i945-thinkpads-install-utilities i945-thinkpads-install-utilities: fix build. 2024-09-08 17:31:15 +02:00
ich9utils build system: wrap git commands. 2024-09-08 17:18:53 +02:00
memtest86plus build system: wrap git commands. 2024-09-08 17:18:53 +02:00
payloads packages: coreboot: distclean: Use bash to avoid issue in PureOS. 2023-12-09 15:53:48 +01:00
release Remove images with the seabios_grubfirst main payload. 2024-10-05 11:32:14 +02:00
rom_images packages: coreboot: distclean: Use bash to avoid issue in PureOS. 2023-12-09 15:53:48 +01:00
roms packages: roms: download: fix missing qemu-img. 2024-10-05 11:25:47 +02:00
roms_helper Remove images with the seabios_grubfirst main payload. 2024-10-05 11:32:14 +02:00
seabios build system: wrap git commands. 2024-09-08 17:18:53 +02:00
src build system: wrap git commands. 2024-09-08 17:18:53 +02:00
u-boot-libre build system: wrap git commands. 2024-09-08 17:18:53 +02:00
website build system: wrap git commands. 2024-09-08 17:18:53 +02:00
README.md packages: Add extremely basic documentation for the various tasks. 2024-09-07 13:04:17 +02:00

README.md

Common tasks

boot: Produce some binary that boots and install it in bin/. clean: Remove all built files. distclean: Remove all files including build configuration files. download: Download files for offline building. Sometimes also builds or download already-built packages when Guix is being used. module: Build some project in its source tree. payload: Produce a payload and install it in payload/. release: Install files in release/ for making a GNU Boot release. test: Run automatic tests of the package.

Task specific to descriptors

build: build the Intel flash descriptors and put them in build/descriptors.

Task specific to dependencies

install: install dependencies. See the website/pages/docs/build/index.md documentation for more details.

Tasks specific to u-boot

deblob-download: See commit 4744953f73 ("u-boot-libre: move to different tasks.") for more details. deblob-release: See commit 4744953f73 ("u-boot-libre: move to different tasks.") for more details.