On 25.02.2008 10:44, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > I do believe we should merge what we call ADLO as another loader into > v3. Augusto Pedroza wrote a patch for that for GSoC iirc. > > Just like we have ELF loading and lar segment loading and VSA loading > now. > > Maybe we could even use the VSA loader to run bochs bios, instead of > ADLO? It's all 16bit lumber ;) > > Then using BIOS compatibility would just mean putting a bochsbios.bin > into the lar. > > ADLO is so fragile because it was written in assembler (so no stack is > needed?!?), reimplementing all the things we have in coreboot in C. So > recognizing that it just another loader would simplify and stabilize > things quite a bit. > > Someone might say we can do this with libpayload or by adding a lot of > chipset specific code to ADLO and rewrite it from scratch. Then we're > at 2500 lines of code instead of 25 and we have a nasty multi-staging.
There is another possibility: Use the recently published official documents about the data expected by NTLDR and successors. While this does not help the *BSD use of ADLO, the Windows use of it could be scrapped and we'd probably end up with a lot less code than what ADLO is now. Comments? Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/ -- coreboot mailing list [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
