On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 07:36:28PM +0200, Patrick Georgi wrote:
Am 06.09.2010 19:34, schrieb Stefan Reinauer:
On 9/6/10 5:27 PM, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
I've also been thinking of adding another helper - "add-string". So a user could do something like: "cbfstool ROM add-string '5500' cfg/boot-menu-delay". As I think this may be a straight forward way to pass simple config items into SeaBIOS.
What's a "string" supposed to be in that context?
Sounds like a reinvention of our CMOS stuff...
It serves a similar role. I don't much like CMOS because I've found it flaky on boards. I also want to be able to config boot order - for example, a boot order might be something like "cdrom,disk,pci00:13.1,floppy" for cdrom, hard drive, BEV on an optionrom (eg, nic), and floppy. Hard drive order might be like "ata1-0,usb1234:4567,pci00:13.1/1" for an ata drive, USB drive, and a BCV on an optionrom (eg, scsi drive). I think encoding this into CMOS would be a lot harder than encoding into a string in CBFS.
Anyway, this is just in the though phase. I only raised it because I thought it might be a sibling to the proposed "add-lzma".
-Kevin