It's also possible to make Linux (with included ramdisk) into a payload, so maybe that could be a middle ground: It's still usable by all payloads that can execute payloads, it's still Linux + userland in a more or less normal configuration. It has some overhead, but OTOH brings the peace of mind of the battle hardened environment.
Patrick Am Fr., 15. Feb. 2019 um 22:33 Uhr schrieb Matt B <[email protected]>: > > Makes sense. That was one thing that gave me a bit of a gut feeling to do it > in a small linux install than to try to integrate more tightly with the > firmware. The linux utility is what everyone uses and should be more reliable. > > I've been recently burned by that issue too, on proprietary firmware from > around 2008. > > -Matt > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 7:56 PM ron minnich <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 9:29 AM Matt B <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > I was helping a friend with a bios issue (we may have an involuntary >> > coreboot convert on our hands ;) ) and realized that a lot of BIOSs >> > provide a way for the BIOS to flash itself but Coreboot doesn't. >> >> And, for the record, this was intentional, a decision I made in 1999 >> when I started the project. I had been burned big time by firmware >> systems that claimed to be able to reliably reflash themselves, and >> the history of UEFI self-reflash, at least in my view, confirms that >> this was the right call. >> >> I just wanted to make clear that this was not an oversight, it was a >> decision we made from the start. We always felt more willing to trust >> a user mode program running under Linux to get it right, as opposed to >> some magic thing in the firmware ... :-) >> >> thanks >> >> ron > > _______________________________________________ > coreboot mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] -- Google Germany GmbH, ABC-Str. 19, 20354 Hamburg Registergericht und -nummer: Hamburg, HRB 86891, Sitz der Gesellschaft: Hamburg Geschäftsführer: Paul Manicle, Halimah DeLaine Prado _______________________________________________ coreboot mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
