Re: [coreboot] SeaBIOS not running vga rom

[Joseph Smith]

On Tue, 12 May 2009 23:13:54 -0400, Kevin O'Connor 
wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 09:58:11PM -0400, Joseph Smith wrote:
> > Well it would be hard to fit 2 years of research into this email but in
>
> a
> > nut shell I am going to be doing some direct framebuffer manipulation to
> > get the tv-out working. I need to do this AFTER the VGA ROM runs and
>
> sets
> > up the initial graphics. Therefore the current ROM emulators in coreboot
> > will let me achieve this because they return to coreboot thus allowing
>
> me
> > to run code directly manipulating the framebuffer.
>
> Random ideas:
> hack the tvout stuff into seabios instead of coreboot

Why not both? Not at the same time of course. coreboot could run it if
using a non-SeaBIOS payload, and SeaBIOS could run it if it is used as the
payload. That would work.