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

Marc Jones marc.jones at amd.com
Wed Jul 18 17:45:11 CEST 2007



ron minnich wrote:
> On 7/17/07, Corey Osgood <corey.osgood at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Peter Stuge wrote:
>>> Also re CMOS checksum, I would like if LB could avoid clobbering the
>>> CMOS, for when switching back and forth with another BIOS.
>>>
>>> Writing LB CMOS bytes would be done after the final switch.
>>>
>>>
>>> //Peter
>>>
>>>
>> Agreed
>>
>> -Corey
> 
> So I guess the original logic is right.
> 
> - CMOS csum bad? fallback boot
> - last boot normal not set? fallback boot
> 
> 
> but we still need the ability to clear one bit, so we can drop to
> fallback. That bit is the 'last boot normal' bit. We can't get away
> from clearing one bit. But we can avoid messing with cmos otherwise.
> 
> ron
> 
It seems that it is the behavior that most people want.

Marc

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