Re: [coreboot] was: wiki account request (for GRUB 2) - now: FILO integration into libpayload

[Stefan Reinauer]

Joseph Smith wrote:
> Looks like the nvram page on the wiki says:
>
> Some of the fields are used by payloads - for instance all the fields that
> start with 'boot_' in the list above. FILO does not use those fields
> currently, but Etherboot does (someone confirm this please!).

Any payload using libpayload can read arbitrary variables listed in
cmos.layout with the functions libpayload provides.

The documentation there is quite outdated.

See
http://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/filo/browser/trunk/filo/main/grub/builtins....
for an example.
> Does this need to be updated?? Has it been confirmed?

Yes, I think this should be updated.