[coreboot] was: wiki account request (for GRUB 2) - now: FILO integration into libpayload
Stefan Reinauer
stepan at coresystems.de
Sun Sep 7 00:48:56 CEST 2008
Joseph Smith wrote:
> Looks like the nvram page on the wiki says:
>
> Some of the fields are used by payloads - for instance all the fields that
> start with 'boot_' in the list above. FILO does not use those fields
> currently, but Etherboot does (someone confirm this please!).
>
Any payload using libpayload can read arbitrary variables listed in
cmos.layout with the functions libpayload provides.
The documentation there is quite outdated.
See
http://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/filo/browser/trunk/filo/main/grub/builtins.c#L282
for an example.
> Does this need to be updated?? Has it been confirmed?
Yes, I think this should be updated.
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