Re: [coreboot] legacybios update

[Myles Watson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]]
> On Behalf Of Kevin O'Connor
> Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 6:02 PM
> To: [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: [coreboot] legacybios update
>
> On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 03:14:22AM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've just pushed a new elf payload to:
> >
> > http://linuxtogo.org/~kevin/legacybios/bios.bin.elf-20080518
> >
> > This version should be free of qemu dependencies.
>
> Just wanted to give an update.  On Sunday, Uwe was able to run some
> tests with "legacybios".  What was found:
>
> coreboot-v2 can run legacybios.  It does require disabling
> valid_area() check in in src/boot/elfboot.c
>
> legacybios will start up on real hardware (tested with coreboot-v2),
> but there were some issues with kbd init, ide init, and usleep.
> This prevented booting a real OS.  Latest "legacybios" git should
> address kbd init and usleep.
>
> A more detailed analysis of filo shows that it has a more advanced
> ide init (it does a pci scan for ide controllers and it has
> "floating bus detection").  I'm going to work on advancing the
> "legacybios" code to also do this.

Could coreboot pass the information for the IDE controllers to "legacybios"
when it passes memory size etc?

Thanks,
Myles