[syslinux] Antw: Re: merging lua branch
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Tue Apr 6 16:33:43 PDT 2010
On 10/14/2009 03:54 PM, Dag Wieers wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Marcel Ritter wrote:
>> Would you consider the following scenario a use case?
>>
>> Let's use DMI functions to get the boards vendor/type and the
>> current BIOS version. Depending on this information call the
>> appropriate BIOS update boot floppy (via memdisk) ...
>> (s. com32/lua/test/dmi.lua)
>
> Yes please :-)
>
> Or simply add certain boot parameters based on hardware/type.
>
> That's what we needed in the past (the feature is currently not needed,
> but may be reintroduce when new hardware arrives requiring old kernels).
>
Anyone still interested in working on this? This is a big deal it would
seem...
-hpa
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