Hi all,
my vacation is over and I need to look in some stuff deeper to finally get the combination coreboot/seabios fully working. The only missing part aside from a lot of testing is the video bios stuff. Here I am working on a patch series to extend seabios vga option rom to support flat panels.
I would like to to use EPI (http://www.epi-standard.org/) for the description of the panels. Due EOL changes my target hardware supports different kind of flat panels (with different timings). I can detect what panel is used with the help of an i2c eeprom. So the normal CBFS will be extended by n EPI raw files. And here the troubles begins :)
1) Can I add symbolic links during runtime
It would be fine if somewhere during the boot (coreboot or seabios) I can readout the needed bytes from the eeprom, decide which EPI file to use and create something line a symlink to the choosen one.
panel.epi -> 640_480_panel_name.epi
2) Can I load a CBFS file in the option rom?
The idea is to load the EPI raw file and provide it via VBE (vbe_104f15) BIOS call. So the geode lx option rom can read out the timing informations via VBE and setup the video mode.
The result should be something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83CDqJMblkw
greets --- Christian Gmeiner, MSc