On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 2:23 AM, Kevin O'Connor <[email protected]> wrote: > > I wonder if YABEL could emulate SeaBIOS - that way, all the ugly bios > code could be in one place (SeaBIOS). Currently, SeaBIOS will enter > 32bit mode to do its initialization - I'm not sure if YABEL can handle > that.
Very interesting idea. Since x86emu does not emulate protected mode code, that code could not be emulated, but maybe it could be normal non-emulated C code that is used for initialization and then the 16 bit code could be emulated... One concern i have is that i would like YABEL to still be a full BIOS emulator for SLOF, so i dont want to remove any of the BIOS emulation code... maybe we could find a way to share the code between the two emulators.. something like libbiosemu?? Then there is the licensing problem... YABEL is BSD licensed, i am assuming that SEABIOS is GPL? I would like YABEL to always be portable to SLOF which is BSD licensed as well... > > It may also be possible to compile the 32bit SeaBIOS code in native > PPC mode and only emulate the 16bit code in YABEL. Ah, didnt read far enough ;-) Thats what i meant with the non-emulated initialization code above... Cheers Patty -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
