12 Jan
1999
12 Jan
'99
2:19 p.m.
The objective is not to write OpenBIOS such that (in practice) a single compiled image can boot any chipset. Rather, the autodetect objective is that a set of chipsets may be chosen at compile time from which the image is about to boot. Thus, for example, a MB manufacturer could compile a BIOS such that one image would work for all the MBs that they manufacture.
If this (compile time selection) is the objective, why call it autodetect? I would have thought from the name that one image fits all. Then, at run time it is autodetected, requiring all of the tables at once.
-Ray