sd-boot: allow setting the timeout via SMBIOS 11#40344
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Allow configuring the menu timeout used by sd-boot by setting `io.systemd.boot.timeout=<value>` as SMBIOS type 11 string. This takes precedence over the setting from the config file and the EFI var. Useful for e.g. integration tests that want to control that a generic image boots faster.
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This is a small followup for systemd#40344 (comment) (thanks Daan and Lennart!). There are quite a few places in the code that currently log a `log_error()` when a `log_warning()` is more appropriate because the error is ignored. This commit now shows those as warnings.
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This is a small followup for #40344 (comment) (thanks Daan and Lennart!). There are quite a few places in the code that currently log a `log_error()` when a `log_warning()` is more appropriate because the error is ignored. This commit now shows those as warnings.
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Allow configuring the menu timeout used by sd-boot by setting
io.systemd.boot.timeout=<value>as SMBIOS type 11 string.This takes precedence over the setting from the config file
and the EFI var.
Useful for e.g. integration tests that want to control that
a generic image boots faster.
Tested with
systemd-vmspawn --secure=false --image=test.img --smbios11=io.systemd.boot.timeout=1on an image that has this version of systemd-bootx64.efi