Re: [coreboot] FILO creating filo.conf

[Joseph Smith]

On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:37:41 +0200, Stefan Reinauer 
wrote:
> I think this might be even better...
>
> writing to drives from firmware might be a bad idea,

Why? Even if it is simple text file?
> though... can this
> be done with cmos bits?

Not sure....you would have basicly convert a kernel command line into hex
and store it in cmos???
>

This is why I asked you if it was possible to have a small read/write area
in flash possibly at the end of the payload.
> An interesting thing would also be to parse syslinux config files and
> put them in the grub menu.. these are used on basically all linux
> install cds/dvds..

Yeh I like this idea for read only media. I hope you don't mind if I
forward this to the list for more opinions.