one other note. ron
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 12:25 PM Subject: Re: [coreboot] SimNOW VGA int 1a To: Marc Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Myles Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jordan Crouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Marc Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > AH! I see. We shouldn't be running out of the ROM. That will be slow. We > should copy the VGA BIOS to real memory and run it there. > > Why are you doing ROM init in stage0? I thought this was well into stage2. > So, safety tip: we can't call ANY ROM in stage2 when we're running doing ROM init. And I just realized the problem: we're calling printk and printk is in ROM. no printks allowed in pcibios.c unless we move printk to RAM, i.e. compile printk into stage2. What a revolting development this is! Our beautiful "common code in ROM" idea is going down in flames. ron -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
