linux-kernel - Re: [syslinux] Read and publish firmware time stamps and boot time

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Message-ID: <5524614E.5090302@zytor.com>
Date:	Tue, 07 Apr 2015 15:59:26 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Paul Menzel <paulepanter@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
	Kay Sievers <kay@...y.org>
CC:	grub-devel@....org, systemd-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	coreboot@...eboot.org, seabios@...bios.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, syslinux@...or.com,
	Umut Tezduyar Lindskog <umut@...duyar.com>
Subject: Re: [syslinux] Read and publish firmware time stamps and boot time

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


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