On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 06:02:15PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If one doesn't have/want to use a commercial VGA BIOS with coreboot ... > > ... how does one use util/vgabios with coreboot and integrated video?
util/vgabios is meant for testing if a certain VGA BIOS binary can/will work if it is included in coreboot. So you need the VGA BIOS to use testbios. > Since the video signal is being generated by the chipset, it seems > that coreboot must do some video related chipset initialization > prior to running testbios (util/vgabios). Actually not, testbios can hopefully initialize the graphics using the factory VGA BIOS. > I assume this has been done on a few boards using coreboot v2. Yes, a few chipsets. > Is there any documentation describing what needs to be done? In a word: modesetting. > Can anyone describe the status of util/vgabios? I believe it works, I reused parts of testbios today. //Peter -- coreboot mailing list [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
