On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 05:39:58PM -0400, Joseph Smith wrote: > >> > I would much prefer if any and all table generation could be > >> > handled by LegacyBIOS or maybe another, separate, payload. > >> > >> Then that payload has to have the knowledge of every cpu, chipset, > >> and motherboard configuration to extract the information. That is > >> difficult which is why the OS leaves it up the the BIOS. It make > >> sense that the tables are generated and used by the configuration > >> code. > > > > We already have some if not all of this information in coreboot. > > I think the ideal would be to allow payloads to use all that > > information in a handy way, rather than only through BIOS tables. > > Why not just have it so legacybios just reads this info from > coreboot and creates the desired tables?
Yes, that is exactly how I would like it to work. //Peter -- coreboot mailing list [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
