ron minnich wrote:
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Corey Osgood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm trying to catch up on this discussion. Are we talking about doing away
with x86emu and vm86 in favor of SeaBIOS, or adding SeaBIOS to the list of
options?
we're talking about removing option ROM support from coreboot, because
we can never do the job in as general a way as people need, unless we
become a full bios. Seabios can. So if you want option rom support,
you will load seabios in to the F segment and let it run the option
roms. Part of the problem is that option roms will want to call bios
services, and coreboot doesn't do those services; but seabios does.
Also - for optionROMs like VGA, we may want to use the services from
within a payload, so we need to make sure that the support
infrastructure survives. Running the optionROM initialization within
one of the emulators works fine and dandy, but the ISV disappears when
the emulator returns.
Jordan
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