On 7/9/10 8:35 PM, Peter Stuge wrote:
Stefan Reinauer wrote:
- Should Fallback always ignore CMOS? I think it would make more sense
if Normal and Fallback were the same and both would write a decent set of CMOS defaults in the case of a bad checksum.
NAK if this means that testing coreboot and later booting factory BIOS again will throw an error and lose/change the NVRAM contents.
I don't understand your concern.
That's always the case in one way or another, unless you disable CMOS settings in coreboot completely.
Are you saying that coreboot should not corrupt factory bios settings even if that is required to have settings in coreboot? It sounds if you need intelligence in that area, you're gonna get it with tools like nvramtool rather than generally cutting coreboot's feature set. In my scenarios a machine is never running vendor bioses again after coreboot is able to boot (that's the whole purpose of coreboot)
Stefan