On 08.03.2010 17:35, ron minnich wrote: > The EFI lesson: if you're going to put an OS in FLASH, at least make > it a good one. > > Otherwise, you get EFI. >
Great quote. May I use that as new signature? > Be careful where you're going here. You're starting to verge on > creating an OS. If you get that far, at least look at what's out there > before you go too much further. > In my very humble opinion, a complete flashrom in flash is not a desirable idea with today's flash sizes and the other restrictions associated with flashing. Either you can load flash images from disk/whatever, and then it should be possible to boot an OS which can run flashrom. Or you can't load flash images from disk/whatever, and then flashrom in flash has nothing to flash. I do care about good design, but if an employer tells me to use a design I disagree with, I won't refuse to use that design. If this becomes a GSoC project, the success of the student (me?) essentially depends on what the mentor thinks is good, so the situation is similar to a workplace. Some people want an all-singing, all-dancing BIOS/bootloader with BIOS settings screen, flashrom, a splash screen video, maybe a builtin game and a disk formatter. If you can thow in a web browser (based on any personal favourite self-written incomplete closed source not-an-operating-system (you know which one I mean)), even better. Throw in some fan control scripts which can make the fans sing and let useful LEDs on the board blink in patterns synchronized to the music. A sizable part of the overclocking/modding crowd will _love_ such a thing regardless of technical merits because it is "cool" and perfect for bragging. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- "I do consider assignment statements and pointer variables to be among computer science's most valuable treasures." -- Donald E. Knuth -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
