Re: [PATCHv4 15/15] Pass boot device list to firmware.

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On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 09:22:45AM +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 09:52:19PM -0500, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> > I also have an ulterior motive here.  If the boot order is exposed as
> > a newline separated list via an entry in QEMU_CFG_FILE_DIR, then this
> > becomes free for coreboot users as well.  (On coreboot, the boot order
> > could be placed in a "file" in flash with no change to the seabios
> > code.)
> > 
> You can define get_boot_order() function and implement it differently
> for qemu and coreboot. For coreboot it will be one linear. Just call
> cbfs_copyfile("bootorder"). BTW why newline separation is important? 

Sure, but it'd be nice to just use romfile_copy("bootorder").

Using newline separated just makes it easier for users to vi and/or
cat the file.

-Kevin
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