On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 07:48:29AM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
On 07/06/2011 06:58 PM, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
BTW, I don't think patch 7 or 9 really make sense to integrate in the official version of SeaBIOS. Also, in patch 8, I'd prefer to see all new fw_cfg entries use the "romfile" mechanism.
Patch 7 is the menu. This patch is needed in 'some form' since in some cases, like after giving up ownership of the TPM, the TPM becomes disabled and deactivated and one has to interact with the BIOS to activate and enable it again. Other scenarios include someone who has forgotten the owner password for the TPM and now has to go through the BIOS to give up ownership of it -- that's the only way one can do this then.
Hrmm. I don't recall seeing this menu on the factory BIOS of real machines. How do normal users interact with it?
Can the info be passed in from QEmu?
I'll have a look at the 'romfile' mechanism for patch 8.
I only post patch 9 for someone who is interested to be able to run the tests. Since the 128kb are slowly filling up, it's not going to be compilable with it for much longer and I don't expect it to go into the repo.
There is no limit at 128K - if it's exceeded the build will start using a 256K rom.
More important than the total size is the "fixed" size reported at the end of the build - that's how much space is used under 1 Meg after the "post" phase completes. Ideally it would stay under 64K though that's not a hard limit either.
-Kevin