Stable storage of BIOS parameters...
ron minnich
rminnich at lanl.gov
Thu Apr 17 16:05:01 CEST 2003
On 17 Apr 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> But regardless the basic question is does putting a jffs2 filesystem on
> the flash start to sound like a good idea? And doing things like
> hard coding filenames or something into the LinuxBIOS code that looks
> up information.
seems ok at first glance.
> I'm just playing with ideas at this point. And the real question is
> how to put the information on the flash. Not what should be the content
> of the individual files. So S-expr is hopefully irrelevant to this bit
> of conversation. I have yet to be convinced a self describing format
> does not have unfortunate size overheads.
Yes, but: isn't a file system in some sense an attempt to get a
self-describing format?
ron
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