rminnich wrote: > My $.02? > > I think few people understand the format of the cmos file, and fewer > still know how to change it to eliminate all the un-needed settings. > This comes up from time to time.. But I'm wondering... How could it be simpler? What is it that people find complicated?
Let's discuss this with a sample, so it's easier to grab http://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/coreboot/browser/trunk/coreboot-v2/src/mainboard/kontron/986lcd-m/cmos.layout The tricky part is to know which options are used in the code of a given board, but that's not something a file system can really improve. > The current format has the advantage of being very > bit-efficient with the limited CMOS memory. But it's not much use if > people are blindly cutting and pasting. > Any format or data structure will suffer from cut and paste frenzy ... Stefan -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
