Pattrick Hueper wrote:
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 5:41 AM, Peter Stuge <[email protected]> wrote:
I still think, that for x86 coreboot vm86 and seabios might be the better solution, but i thought that v3 was designed to be portable to other platforms, and for those i think the biosemu code can help, but probably not provide all functionality of seabios. Also, i am not sure wether the code should be moved to a payload, at least not a standalone payload... if for example the code initialises a IDE controller, it would still need some other payload (or coreboot) to read a bootloader from the disk and start that...
Indeed - there is still some question as to where the hybrid vm86/seabios or SLOF would live in the v3 ecosystem - I favor having the infrastructure live within coreboot itself, because it will be used globally by all systems. I think having it as a payload (even as a chained payload) is an additional build step that we don't need.
But thats a future discussion. Jordan -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
