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

Kevin O'Connor kevin at koconnor.net
Mon Sep 6 20:10:39 CEST 2010


On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 07:36:28PM +0200, Patrick Georgi wrote:
> Am 06.09.2010 19:34, schrieb Stefan Reinauer:
> >  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?
> Sounds like a reinvention of our CMOS stuff...

It serves a similar role.  I don't much like CMOS because I've found
it flaky on boards.  I also want to be able to config boot order - for
example, a boot order might be something like
"cdrom,disk,pci00:13.1,floppy" for cdrom, hard drive, BEV on an
optionrom (eg, nic), and floppy.  Hard drive order might be like
"ata1-0,usb1234:4567,pci00:13.1/1" for an ata drive, USB drive, and a
BCV on an optionrom (eg, scsi drive).  I think encoding this into CMOS
would be a lot harder than encoding into a string in CBFS.

Anyway, this is just in the though phase.  I only raised it because I
thought it might be a sibling to the proposed "add-lzma".

-Kevin




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