[ipxe-devel] Symlinks of ROM images

Wed Mar 30 15:08:52 UTC 2011

On Wednesday 30 Mar 2011 14:52:45 Bastian Blank wrote:
> I'm currently try to build packages for iPXE. If I use the allroms
> target, I get two files for every PCI device. This means I have the
> whole bunch of data two times.
> 
> Would it be possible to create one of this files as a symlink instead of
> a real image file?

Symlinks would be difficult, but I've modified the build system so that "make 
allroms" now creates only the PCI ID form (e.g. "bin/10ec8139.rom") for PCI 
ROMs.  ISA ROMs are still created by name.

  http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commitdiff/0579b82

Michael