ron minnich wrote:
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 6:11 PM, joe@smittys.pointclark.net wrote:
coreboot is an alternative. I was asking if anyone knew about interest for a stronger bond between coreboot and Linux.
Ah, gotcha...
Actually, it requires only that somebody start dropping patches in. But what, really, do we need? EFI makes all kinds of demands on Linux ... coreboot doesn't.
This is our big marketing weakness leading to answers such as "fix your bios". Believe it or not, I just implemented an SMBIOS implementation for coreboot in order to be able to use ACPI without acpi=force on the command line. That's the way to go? We do have requirements to the OS, but we do not pronounce them enough. One requirement would be: Don't look for SMBIOS if you already found a coreboot lbtable and do use ACPI in that case, because if thats buggy, we can fix it. Or: we initialize video with 1024x786x16 instead of 80x25 and have a corebootfb read that resolution from lbtable, behaving like vesafb otherwise. There are things that come to mind when actually thinking beyound booting a cluster or server.
Stefan