Add build instructions for coreinfo, specially pointing out installing

[coreboot.git] / payloads / coreinfo / README

diff --git a/payloads/coreinfo/README b/payloads/coreinfo/README
index ba9774c8851aaa4e3a4804dfd704be19d1cb830b..4df5359c35bae68df998cf1cc4e149f265451dd4 100644 (file)
--- a/payloads/coreinfo/README
+++ b/payloads/coreinfo/README
@@ -1,3 +1,27 @@
 This is a silly little program that demonstrates how cool libpayload is
 and also serves a purpose.  Its fun and educational!
 
+Requirements
+------------
+
+You should use the coreboot reference cross compiler. If you insist on using
+your system compiler, some Linux distributions might require you to install
+a package called gcc-multilib if you are on a 64bit system.
+
+Build
+-----
+
+You need libpayload to build coreinfo. So, first, you need follow the README of 
+libpayload to build it but install libpayload into its own directory by doing 
+this:
+
+ $ make DESTDIR=/path/to/libpayload/install install
+
+Then you can build coreinfo now:
+
+ $ cd coreinfo
+
+ $ make menuconfig
+ 
+ $ make
+