Which option ROMs? newish ones or 3c509 :-)? Ah well guess I believe you. I guess I never needed it because in my main uses we did not use or want option roms -- we loaded Linux and there was no need there. Running some option rom in an 8086 mode was never desired ...

We've gone backwards in some ways from when Linux was our bootstrap.

ron

On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Stefan Reinauer <stefan.reinauer@coreboot.org> wrote:

* ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> [140310 22:43]:

> Now you've just made me sad.
>
> OK, given that in the beginning times we never supplied this little tidbit, who
> or what needs it? It looks like another memory turd whose time has gone.
>
> ron

It's needed by some option roms. See void dev_initialize(void) in
src/device/device.c

Stefan