-----Original Message----- From: Stefan Reinauer [mailto:stepan@coresystems.de] Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 5:48 PM To: Myles Watson Cc: joe@settoplinux.org; 'Coreboot' Subject: Re: [coreboot] ADLO for buildrom
Myles Watson wrote:
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:58:56 -0600, "Myles Watson" mylesgw@gmail.com wrote:
It boots Windows XP in QEMU.
Sweet:-)
What about booting XP on real hardware?
The loader needs to be customized for each board, or we need to pass
some
information like RAM map from coreboot before that will work.
Which is why it really should, no, it has to be built into coreboot itself. coreboot already has all the knowledge required for this. Duplicating efforts that we did in C in another assembler chunk is plain b0rked.
I was hoping that we could pass it the same information we pass the Linux kernel. The e820 maps etc. I haven't looked into it too much, but ACPI tables for that information would be fine for me too.
Myles