On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 04:37:55PM -0400, Corey Osgood wrote: > I don't much care for the idea of a bios setup option, it would > take up too much space and be too much of a hassle to deal with.
It must be optional! But I think it has a lot of merit. > LinuxBIOS is not Award/Phoenix/AMI BIOS, and shouldn't have to > emulate them. No, I want to do so much better than them. Having a LinuxBIOS boot-time setup utility that just does what's in a random factory BIOS would mean we failed horribly in the creativity department. > When LinuxBIOS is used in embedded products, it should never need > to have any setup options changed. No, sure, but you may want to set them sometime. Probably before the product is in production. > If it's used on a desktop system, lxbios should be available, and > there should be a fallback option in place should something go > wrong, such as a payload for booting from USB, etc. Just my 2 > cents. I think we can do much better than the lxbios utility. :) //Peter -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
