On 02/02/2015 12:09 PM, David Michael wrote: > 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". >
Ah interesting David -- and good job on getting the efi.smbios stuff in there too as that's an easy thing to miss. I'll take a closer look ... P. > Thanks. > > David > _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
