On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 3:01 PM, Peter Stuge peter@stuge.se wrote:
One7two99 via coreboot wrote:
add which location should I place my extracted vga blob, so that it can be found during the Coreboot Build process
Paths entered during configuration reference the source root directory.
What other settings are suggested to get proper vga initialization to be able to boot windows:
VGA init can be proper without Windows being able to boot.
Windows will require SeaBIOS. (In theory perhaps TianoCore+CorebootPkg works too, but I wouldn't bet on that.)
coreboot + Tianocore/CorebootPayloadPkg works perfectly well to run Windows on everything from SandyBridge to Skylake
Windows will also require the VGA BIOS.
with Tianocore you want to use GOP + VBT for graphics init; vbios can work but not as well.
If you have SeaBIOS then I recommend letting SeaBIOS run the VGA BIOS.
- Devices > Add a Video Bios Table (VBT) binary to CBFS (yes or no?)
No - the VGA BIOS creates a VBT. Is that not documented sufficiently?
more precisely, the vbios contains a VBT. An external/separate VBT is only needed when using either NGI + Windows, or when using GOP graphics init (on FSP platforms or w/Tianocore as the payload)
- Devices > Graphic initialization (currently: use native graphics init)
(should I switch this to: Run VGA Option Roms?)
No - disable graphics init in coreboot and let SeaBIOS run your VGA BIOS.
As you can find in SeaBIOS docs, that requires the VGA BIOS to be stored with the correct name in CBFS, which coreboot may or may not do automatically. (It should, but bugs.)
If you store the VGA BIOS with a name in CBFS containing a special subdirectory (I think vgaroms/) then the rest of the filename doesn't matter.
You can of course always add the VGA BIOS file to CBFS manually, if you want it to have a particular name in CBFS. It is not neccessary that the coreboot build system adds it.
probably easiest though to add the VGA BIOS in coreboot, set the correct PCI ID, and then let SeaBIOS run it (IMO)
//Peter
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