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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Pattrick Hueper <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:33 AM Subject: Re: [coreboot] SeaBIOS and boot of SATA raid card To: Kevin O'Connor <[email protected]> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 6:30 AM, Kevin O'Connor <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ruik! > > The simple way to do this (reload the ebda_seg from the bda) on every > access is going to lead to terrible code generation. It may be > simpler to implement the Post Memory Manager (PMM) interface - in > theory, an option rom shouldn't relocate the ebda if it can allocate > memory via PMM. Another possibility would be to assign a segment to > the current ebda location (eg, fs/gs) at every entry to the C code. > for YABEL i have done PMM handling while working for IBM, however, that code was not open sourced.. if it helps, i can try to come up with the code for YABEL again, maybe it is portable to SEABIOS? Patty -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
