On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 6:20 AM, Prarit Bhargava <pra...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 02/01/2015 09:05 PM, David Michael wrote: >> * grub-core/commands/i386/smbios.c: New file. >> * grub-core/Makefile.core.def (smbios): New module. >> * docs/grub.texi (smbios): New node. >> (Command-line and menu entry commands): Add a menu entry for smbios. >> --- >> >> Hi, >> >> There was some interest on help-grub about supporting SMBIOS access >> upstream. > > OOC, why? Why would you need to do this? I'm certainly not against doing > this > but just wondering exactly why you want to do this.
The thread on grub-help asked about booting particular kernel versions off a hot-pluggable drive based on the detected hardware, which this would allow. I originally wrote it to change what options are available based on whether a disk is being booted physically or virtually. Since QEMU makes it easy to add SMBIOS entries on the command line, I've also been using it for random tweaks like showing a vga_text boot menu instead of gfxterm when running QEMU with "-display curses". Thanks. David _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
