Re: Revisiting EFI boot stub config file support

2013-01-02 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 12:52:21PM -0500, Shea Levy wrote: > But you can't set args when booting from external media (using e.g. > \boot\efi\bootx64.efi), at least not on any system I've seen. And even > if you could, that'd over complicate the install process for new > users. So have an initi

Re: Revisiting EFI boot stub config file support

2013-01-02 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 01/02/2013 09:43 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 08:26:29AM -0500, Shea Levy wrote: > >> Hm, ok. Does the boot stub have access to CONFIG_CMDLINE? Or could >> another compile-time setting be added so that distros can ship livecds >> that automatically use a config file fo

Re: Revisiting EFI boot stub config file support

2013-01-02 Thread Shea Levy
On Jan 2, 2013, at 12:43, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 08:26:29AM -0500, Shea Levy wrote: > >> Hm, ok. Does the boot stub have access to CONFIG_CMDLINE? Or could >> another compile-time setting be added so that distros can ship livecds >> that automatically use a config fil

Re: Revisiting EFI boot stub config file support

2013-01-02 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 08:26:29AM -0500, Shea Levy wrote: > Hm, ok. Does the boot stub have access to CONFIG_CMDLINE? Or could > another compile-time setting be added so that distros can ship livecds > that automatically use a config file found at a hard-coded location? Just pass the config fi

Re: Revisiting EFI boot stub config file support

2013-01-02 Thread Shea Levy
On Jan 1, 2013, at 12:24, "H. Peter Anvin" wrote: > On 01/01/2013 07:55 AM, Shea Levy wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> In March last year, I submitted a patch to enable the EFI boot stub to >> read its config arguments from a file on the ESP, both to help with >> booting from livecds and to avoid having

Re: Revisiting EFI boot stub config file support

2013-01-01 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 01/01/2013 07:55 AM, Shea Levy wrote: > Hi all, > > In March last year, I submitted a patch to enable the EFI boot stub to > read its config arguments from a file on the ESP, both to help with > booting from livecds and to avoid having to use efibootmgr every time > you change your boottime arg

Revisiting EFI boot stub config file support

2013-01-01 Thread Shea Levy
Hi all, In March last year, I submitted a patch to enable the EFI boot stub to read its config arguments from a file on the ESP, both to help with booting from livecds and to avoid having to use efibootmgr every time you change your boottime arguments. I ended up dropping the submission becau