Alexander Graf wrote:
Because that's not what you'd use it for. That's what -kernel and -initrd are there for. IMHO having a BIOS backdoor is a good thing in general. If anyone wants to destroy their user experience by writing a driver for that in their OS, I'm good with that, but let's not expose things twice _to users_ as the default case.
N.B. regardless of whether we have an alternative, simple block interface or we have proper drivers in the BIOS, we still have the same problem to solve. We need a way to communicate the desired boot priority of each block device. This becomes quite a bit more complicated if we're doing proper drivers in BIOS.
Regards, Anthony Liguori
Alex
