Re: [LinuxBIOS] V3 fallback, failover, and the normal boot flag.

[ron minnich]

On 7/18/07, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger  wrote:
> On 18.07.2007 03:05, Peter Stuge wrote:
> > Also re CMOS checksum, I would like if LB could avoid clobbering the
> > CMOS, for when switching back and forth with another BIOS.
> >
> > Writing LB CMOS bytes would be done after the final switch.
>
> What about writing to flash instead? IIRC some factory BIOSes write
> to flash instead of writing to cmos. Of coure that makes sense only
> if you are able to flash single pages.

it's a hjgh overhead operation. I still prefer using one bit of CMOS.

ron