Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] Add support for high tables to via vt8454c

[Myles Watson]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 7:11 AM, Patrick Georgi  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