Re: [SeaBIOS] [syslinux] Read and publish firmware time stamps and boot time

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 04/06/2015 02:13 PM, Paul Menzel via Syslinux wrote:
> > The kernel boot protocol should probably be extended to accept a block
> > of values to be passed from the loader to the OS, and be exported
> > somewhere by the kernel itself to userspace.

We have that, it is called initramfs.  It contains a sequence of binary
blobs, each of which has a string identifier, usually known as a
"filename".  The kernel then presents it to userspace as a "file".

-hpa