On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Kevin O'Connor <[email protected]> wrote:
> What's the use case for normal/failover? I always envisioned it as a > software implementation of a "bios savior". If so, building in a > serialice shell might be a simpler solution. > > Am I missing an important use-case? I'm flashing 1024 machines. power fails midway through. bad. I flash a new bios that has worked in test. It fails on 10% of the machines, in ways that could not be predicted because 10% of my machines have a manufacturing defect. This is what happened to me. Fallback saved me. There are lots of use cases. It's why many vendors ship with a fallback. ron -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
