rminnich wrote:
My $.02?
I think few people understand the format of the cmos file, and fewer still know how to change it to eliminate all the un-needed settings.
This comes up from time to time.. But I'm wondering... How could it be simpler? What is it that people find complicated?
Let's discuss this with a sample, so it's easier to grab
http://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/coreboot/browser/trunk/coreboot-v2/src/main...
The tricky part is to know which options are used in the code of a given board, but that's not something a file system can really improve.
The current format has the advantage of being very bit-efficient with the limited CMOS memory. But it's not much use if people are blindly cutting and pasting.
Any format or data structure will suffer from cut and paste frenzy ...
Stefan