Re: [coreboot] [syslinux] Read and publish firmware time stamps and boot time

2015-04-07 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 04/06/2015 02:13 PM, Paul Menzel via Syslinux wrote: >> >> The kernel boot protocol should probably be extended to accept a block >> of values to be passed from the loader to the OS, and be exported >> somewhere by the kernel itself to userspace. >> We have that, it is called initramfs. It con

Re: [coreboot] Lenovo G505S and Coreboot LTS Candidates list

2015-04-07 Thread Emilian Bold
My point is not to limit your LTS list to US laptops. US has *extraordinary* availability for a lot of gear. There's also the matter of procurement and warranty. A company won't bother importing some laptop from outside the EU just because a developer wants it -- they will look locally and as a la

Re: [coreboot] Lenovo G505S and Coreboot LTS Candidates list

2015-04-07 Thread Vladimir
If I am not mistaken, your country is Romania... Unfortunately - if I didn't skip something - it looks like Romania went out of A10 stock just a couple of weeks ago! However, I found many offers from Hungary, which is very close! Some offers are listed on "price list"-type websites (e.g. http://www

Re: [coreboot] GRUB 2 is a great payload!

2015-04-07 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, > > Please let me understand your point better. I don’t see, why that size > > difference is a problem? > > > This shouldn't even be questioned. Smaller is always better. grub is doing stuff seabios doesn't. For example parsing file systems. The code for that needs to go somewhere. So yo