On 01/01/2013 07:55 AM, Shea Levy wrote: > Hi all, > > In March last year, I submitted a patch to enable the EFI boot stub to > read its config arguments from a file on the ESP, both to help with > booting from livecds and to avoid having to use efibootmgr every time > you change your boottime arguments. I ended up dropping the submission > because I ended up coming to the conclusion that tools like rEFInd and > gummiboot were better suited to the task of boot managing than the > kernel itself. > > Since then, however, I've received enough emails asking about the status > of the patch that I think there is room for a simpler entrant into the > field of linux EFI boot management. This could be in-kernel, as per my > original patch, or a very simple out-of-kernel (but maybe distributed > in-tree?) efi image that simply reads linux.conf and boots linux with > those parameters. My personal bias is still toward handling this > functionality outside of the kernel itself, but before I started the > work I thought I'd ask here if anyone thought I should instead bring my > old patch up-to-date. > I am willing to accept this (but I am not the first-line maintainer, Matt is) in the kernel EFI stub as long as there are no hard-coded filenames involved, no automatic behavior, and no "scanning". Those are showstoppers, as is adding to the boot time for nonusers. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
