Re: [PATCH] hdparm.mod - get/set ATA disk parameters

[Robert Millan]

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 09:38:39PM +0100, Christian Franke wrote:
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>> But if the firmware already did, wouldn't this be a waste of boot time?
>>
>>   
>
> Yes, it would. Most BIOS perform both health check and security freeze,  
> but some don't. For coreboot, it is not a waste of boot time.
>
> So if this is added to grub-mkconfig, it should be configurable by some  
> variable.

When using coreboot with GRUB, you usually have either:

  - A single GRUB, in chip, with a hand-crafted configuration.

  - Two GRUBs, one in chip which loads the other one from disk.  The
    configuration for the first is hand-crafted but the second one would
    usually be grub-mkconfig'ed.

In this case sounds like the right place for this would be the hand-crafted
part.  There's some example script code in:

  http://grub.enbug.org/CoreBoot

How about adding it there?

-- 
Robert Millan

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