Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755230AbbDGXAK (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Apr 2015 19:00:10 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:58517 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754134AbbDGXAE (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Apr 2015 19:00:04 -0400 Message-ID: <5524614E.5090302@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2015 15:59:26 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Menzel , Kay Sievers CC: grub-devel@gnu.org, systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, coreboot@coreboot.org, seabios@seabios.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, syslinux@zytor.com, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog Subject: Re: [syslinux] Read and publish firmware time stamps and boot time References: <1428354795.3395.421.camel@users.sourceforge.net> In-Reply-To: <1428354795.3395.421.camel@users.sourceforge.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 712 Lines: 19 On 04/06/2015 02:13 PM, Paul Menzel via Syslinux wrote: >> >> 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. >> 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/