the following patch was just integrated into master: commit adb5908dc85f694420c28a6a3e78541a7254376a Author: Timothy Pearson tpearson@raptorengineeringinc.com Date: Thu Feb 5 10:47:40 2015 -0600
payloads/seabios: Enable SeaVGABIOS option if native text init supported
SeaVGABIOS supports both the coreboot linear framebuffer and native EGA text mode. To use SeaBIOS interactively on standard VGA hardware a VBIOS is needed; SeaVGABIOS is one such option.
TEST: Booted KFSN4-DRE with XGI Volari Z9s and SeaVGABIOS. Was able to interact with SeaBIOS and comboot menu, then booted Linux successfully. VGA display was continuously usable from power on to Linux login.
Change-Id: Id4bd4cb5cece9114457633832c5f0e5280c02b47 Signed-off-by: Timothy Pearson tpearson@raptorengineeringinc.com Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/8368 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net Reviewed-by: Alexandru Gagniuc mr.nuke.me@gmail.com
See http://review.coreboot.org/8368 for details.
-gerrit