Hi Joseph, On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 08:46:07AM -0400, Joseph Smith wrote: > > Given the above, I see two possibilities. > > > > The first involves having coreboot build the standard tables. > > Like I said why not just have a mini program between the two that handles > this operation.
Where does this "mini program" get the data? It will face the same issues I outlined in my previous email. >It could be added to coreboot or legacybios as an option > module. The mini program would read the coreboot tables and what ever else > it needed and then set these tables up in a format that coresponds with > legacybios, and finally passes the tables to legacybios. The coreboot table today does not provide sufficient information to build the acpi/pir/mptable/smbios tables. We could extend the coreboot table - but what's the point of defining our own intermediate format. For example, if the end consumer wants an smbios table, why translate from "coreboot->coreboot table->legacybios->smbios table" when we can just go from "coreboot->smbios table"? >Does it have to be more complicated than that? Adding an additional program in between seems to make things more complicated. Thanks, -Kevin -- coreboot mailing list [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
