Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] cbfstool "add-lzma" method

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 07:34:55PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> On 9/6/10 5:27 PM, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> > I've also been thinking of adding another helper - "add-string".  So a
> > user could do something like: "cbfstool ROM add-string '5500'
> > cfg/boot-menu-delay".  As I think this may be a straight forward way
> > to pass simple config items into SeaBIOS.
>
> What's a "string" supposed to be in that context?

It would be passing in the file contents on the command-line instead
of in a file.  So, for example:

$ cbfstool ROM add-string '5500' cfg/boot-menu-delay

would be the equivalent of:

$ echo '5500' > myfile
$ cbfstool ROM add myfile cfg/boot-menu-delay

-Kevin