On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 10:38:45PM -0700, ron minnich wrote: > On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Warren Turkal <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sunday, October 17, 2010 08:46:28 pm Stefan Reinauer wrote: > > >> Should we add a "use SeaBIOS as payload" option that disables all that > >> stuff automatically? > > > > Why wouldn't SeaBIOS turn that KB init off if it's a coreboot payload since > > coreboot is technically responsible for initializing hardware. Also, other > > payloads may need the keyboard, so it kinda makes sense to me to isolate > > that > > logic into coreboot. > > to add to this, is there ever a case where seabios might be one of > several payloads in flash? > > So it might be "seabios is the ONLY Payload" option.
Linux also initializes the keyboard on its own. I'd guess most OSes do - it's the only way to ensure the keyboard is in a sane state when the OS starts. The KB init should really go into libpayload and be removed from coreboot. -Kevin -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
