On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 04:37:55PM -0400, Corey Osgood wrote:
I don't much care for the idea of a bios setup option, it would take up too much space and be too much of a hassle to deal with.
It must be optional! But I think it has a lot of merit.
LinuxBIOS is not Award/Phoenix/AMI BIOS, and shouldn't have to emulate them.
No, I want to do so much better than them. Having a LinuxBIOS boot-time setup utility that just does what's in a random factory BIOS would mean we failed horribly in the creativity department.
When LinuxBIOS is used in embedded products, it should never need to have any setup options changed.
No, sure, but you may want to set them sometime. Probably before the product is in production.
If it's used on a desktop system, lxbios should be available, and there should be a fallback option in place should something go wrong, such as a payload for booting from USB, etc. Just my 2 cents.
I think we can do much better than the lxbios utility. :)
//Peter