On 16/07/08 21:36 -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:43:31PM -0600, Myles Watson wrote: > > I for one don't understand what needs to be done in coreboot after the > > option ROM scans. It seems like it would help us discuss the possible > > solutions if we could enumerate that. > > I agree. > > >It seems like Coreboot can > > load whatever should come after SeaBIOS into RAM and have SeaBIOS jump > > there. > > Sounds good to me. All we need to do is pass a start address into > seabios and then seabios can add it to the list of boot options. > > One thing to be careful here is that the second payload must be above > 1M (so seabios doesn't stomp on it). Also, as Carl-Daniel points out, > there is nothing stopping an option rom from stomping on the second > payload.
Thats going to be a huge problem. For the same reasons that seabios lives under 1Mb, so do payloads that load other payloads (such as bayou). If this is going to be a issue, then we need to work out an agreement for carving up the space < 1Mb. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. -- coreboot mailing list [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
