Re: [coreboot] fixing i810 onboard vga

[Vincent Legoll]

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 5:46 PM, ron minnich  wrote:
> It is quite amazing how sloppy "production" bios code is. That's what
> happens when you can hide behind closed source. Nobody gets hurt but
> the customer.
>
> The fix? Modify the BIOS image and put the device ID in the image.

Why not Having a config option turning the "error and not running the rom"
into "warning and run the rom anyways". Would that be risky ?
CONFIG_RUN_SLOPPY_EXPANSION_ROMS

As this will bite more people, and I'm wondering if my own personal lack
of working VGA would be related to that same kind of thing...