[SeaBIOS] [PATCH] boot: boot menu up to 35 devices with letters and possible pages

Kevin O'Connor kevin at koconnor.net
Fri Jul 7 16:51:49 CEST 2017


On Sun, Jul 02, 2017 at 12:38:00AM +0300, Ivan Ivanov wrote:
> Recently I discovered another area where this "35 devices" patch is useful.
> When you need to debug a payload on the real coreboot-supported hardware,
> to speed up the development you could include a lot of slightly different
> versions of the same payload to your coreboot ROM, and then
> could test them all after a single flashing, saving your time and
> reducing the wearing out of SPI flash

Sorry for the delay in responding.

I think it would be useful to support more than 10 devices in the boot
menu.  I'm not convinced we need a paging menu though.  I suspect that
increasing the count to 20 (or whatever fits on a page) should be
sufficient for now.

-Kevin



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