UEFI Plans / Shifts -- RFC

[Warner Losh]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 3:18 AM, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 09:01:34AM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> > --------
> > In message <CANCZdfoMZXJu2nRbAtLTPc1B4YWWbxsHQjX31zOo+8mDwMAQuA at mail.
> gmail.com>
> > , Warner Losh writes:
> >
> > >So here's my open questions:
> > >(1) Do I need to parse boot.conf?
> >
> > I can't see how it would add any value on top of UEFI and reading it
> > will just keeping old workarounds alive another decade for no good
> reason.
>
> An obvious values is to have serial console earlier than loader.conf is
> parsed.  At least on typical desktop motherboards which do not have
> serial bios redirection, this is important.
>

This won't work until AFTER we add ACPI to the boot loader.

Warner