On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 7:11 AM, Patrick Georgi <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 28.04.2009 15:04, schrieb Myles Watson: >> >> To spare us from having to do so many conversions maybe we should have >> an include file for ACPI options, another for K8-specific options, ... > > Or add high tables support to _all_ northbridges, and drop the option, > making high tables the immutable default. > > They're required for seabios (it overwrites some crucial tables otherwise), > and there are few reasons not to use them.
I thought the main disadvantage was that there are other payloads which can't handle high tables yet. It would be too bad not to be able to boot a Linux kernel directly anymore. Thanks, Myles -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
