On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 14:20:22 +0200, Stefan Reinauer stepan@coresystems.de wrote:
Joseph Smith wrote:
Ok, now were getting somewhere. This area is also used for the coreboot CMOS/NVRAM table correct? What is the maximum bytes the coreboot
CMOS/NVRAM
table uses? And how many bites could we allocate for FILO to use?
Some of the space is reserved for the coreboot normal/fallback mechanism and some for the real time clock.
See your mainboard's cmos.layout. Most of the stuff is copied from other boards and can be removed.
Great so far the requirements I'm thinking include:
a byte for the boot method: 0 - firstboot or CMOS cleared(default) 1 - Manual Boot 2 - Command Line boot 3 - filo.conf boot
a byte for auto boot time out specified in seconds
and the rest for ASCII text which would include one of two things:
a kernel command line
or
a pointer to filo.conf on the hard drive
What do you think?