Am 06.09.2010 20:10, schrieb Kevin O'Connor:
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.
We use a string in CMOS for that on kontron/986lcd-m
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".
add-lzma somewhat breaks the CBFS design as is. hence the question how this can be made consistent.
Patrick