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Re: [syslinux] Read and publish firmware time stamps and boot time
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H. Peter Anvin |
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Re: [syslinux] Read and publish firmware time stamps and boot time |
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Tue, 07 Apr 2015 15:59:26 -0700 |
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On 04/06/2015 02:13 PM, Paul Menzel via Syslinux wrote:
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>> The kernel boot protocol should probably be extended to accept a block
>> of values to be passed from the loader to the OS, and be exported
>> somewhere by the kernel itself to userspace.
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We have that, it is called initramfs. It contains a sequence of binary
blobs, each of which has a string identifier, usually known as a
"filename". The kernel then presents it to userspace as a "file".
-hpa