On 30.05.2008 22:44, Jordan Crouse wrote:
On 29/05/08 14:58 -0700, ron minnich wrote:
Wow, wonderful job to all at LInuxTag! Thanks to you all!
I just ran the bayou demo and it is really impressive. I wonder if there is anything else like it? It's really neat.
Thanks. There is still much to be done, but I think this is a pretty good start.. :) To that end, let me solicit the help of the community to think about the next step.
As a group we have identified two main behaviors for the chooser:
- An interactive menu
- Chaining (running one payload after another in the fashion of a
traditional BIOS)
Absolutely.
But when you look closer, the number of possible modes explodes. As an example:
- You may want to add a timeout to the menu, so that if somebody doesn't
press the hotkey, a default payload is chosen.
Reasonable.
- When chaining, some payloads will be opt in (press F1 for setup), some
will be opt out (press F2 to skip), and others will always run
Reasonable as well.
- Uwe expressed a desire to select a chain from the menu
No offense, but IMHO that is a bit overboard.
Everything is further complicated by the fact that we can add a new payload to the LAR at any time, which makes it very difficult to specific the configuration at bayou compile time.
Maybe just store a default configuration at compile time and retrieve settings from NVRAM or from a continuously-changing zone in flash?
So, this is a very long and complex way of saying that we need a simple yet clever way to configure bayou that takes into account all of the above. Any ideas?
See above.
Regards, Carl-Daniel