Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] Move cmos.default handling to bootblock

[Georgi, Patrick]

Am Freitag, den 18.02.2011, 12:28 +0100 schrieb Georgi, Patrick:
> Am Freitag, den 18.02.2011, 12:15 +0100 schrieb Peter Stuge:
> > > HAVE_CMOS_DEFAULT. Without this, cmos.default isn't put into CBFS
> > > (by default), and without that file, no write happens.
> >
> > But it's a mainboard knob, not a user knob, right?
>
> We don't deliver cmos.default files, so this is a user setting at this
> time.
> This might change, and then we should reevaluate how we handle CMOS.
> But USE_OPTION_TABLE should disable it _all_ anyway.
>
> So you already have:
> no CMOS at all
> CMOS support, but no cmos.default
> CMOS support with cmos.default
> > Strict mode (requires NVRAM to always be correct, or will fail to
> > boot. maybe also other extra checks in the code)
>
> "Fail to boot"? I wonder about its use.

Ping again?
What's missing except for new features (eg. more fine-grained control
that allows users to build images that won't boot in certain
circumstances)?

Patrick