Re: [coreboot] U-Boot-x86 / coreboot Integration

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:40:23AM +1000, Graeme Russ wrote:
> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Kevin O'Connor  wrote:
> > VGA option ROMs call BIOS functions.  So, one needs a BIOS
> > implementation (eg, SeaBIOS) or an emulator for them (eg, in
> > coreboot).
>
> How many functions are needed? (surely not all the IDE and keyboard stuff
> for example) - Could the bare minimum be implemented in a stripped-down
> modified SeaBIOS?

The disk and keyboard drivers aren't needed to init VGA.

SeaBIOS has a Kconfig interface, and almost all features can be
disabled via that interface.

-Kevin