[LinuxBIOS] V3 fallback, failover, and the normal boot flag.

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Wed Jul 18 12:43:21 CEST 2007


On 18.07.2007 11:27, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> * Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se> [070718 03:05]:
>>> But since many payloads don't do this correctly, should this be a
>>> config option?
>> Not payload, the OS. Maybe even the application. I say teach lxbios
>> how to set the completed flag if it doesn't already know and move the
>> problem to where it belongs - userspace and init scripts.
>  
> Yes, the OS should set it. So we should add an option to lxbios 
> lxbios --set-boot-complete or something.

Hm. Can we abuse ACPI to do that? Like accessing SystemCMOS from a
_INI function?

Regards,
Carl-Daniel




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