[SeaBIOS] Dealing with fallback and normal coreboot images

Paul Menzel pmenzel at molgen.mpg.de
Thu Jan 26 16:48:14 CET 2017


Dear SeaBIOS folks,


coreboot allows to prefix images to add different romstage, ramstage, 
and payloads, and depending on the behavior during boot, choose a 
certain one.

Commonly *normal* and *fallback* are used as prefixes, while the 
bootblock code loads the *normal* image first, but if there is a 
failure, commonly after three tries, boots the fallback image.

SeaBIOS takes runtime configuration values always from `etc/`. That way, 
only one configuration can be used for different coreboot builds.

What could be a solution for that problem? Also allow `fallback/etc/`, 
and `normal/etc`?


Kind regards,

Paul



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