On 09/09/11 02:51, Jianmin Pan wrote:
I want to study the openbios project, while there is a question, I read that, open bios rely on other firmware, such as coreboot, in my knowledge, coreboot is a bios system itself, isn't there a conflict?
Welcome to the OpenBIOS project :) Probably the best way to think about it is that coreboot performs the low level hardware initialisation for various chipsets and then executes a (generally ELF) payload in order to handle the boot process.
In the past I've managed to successfully build CoreBoot with an OpenBIOS payload for testing under x86 on QEMU which I think is a good way to help get yourself familiar with the process. BTW as a matter of interest, do you have any interesting projects in mind for OpenBIOS?
ATB,
Mark.