Sebastian Herbszt wrote: > Jan Kiszka wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Seabios seems to have some assumptions built in that break when -M isapc >> is selected. Is this supposed to work or is isapc about to die? > > SeaBIOS doesn't POST if the F-segment is not writeable [1]. A possible, but > IMO > wrong fix was posted on the list [2]. > > [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2009-11/msg01188.html > [2] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2009-12/msg00445.html >
Indeed, [2] makes it work again. But taking away IO_MEM_ROM really looks like a lazy workaround. I don't know how much Seabios needs to write - can't it use normal RAM for this? Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux
