Re: [SeaBIOS] [coreboot] [PATCH] SeaBIOS VGA hooks

[Joseph Smith]

On 06/09/2010 04:57 PM, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> On 6/9/10 10:15 PM, Joseph Smith wrote:
> > > The coreboot SMI handler already implements that. Remember SMI handlers
> > > stay active even when the OS is loaded.
> > >
> > > For security reasons coreboot even locks SMM so that SeaBIOS (or a Linux
> > > kernel module or root process) couldn't  just install a new handler.
> > > When experimenting that lock can of course be disabled in the coreboot
> > > source.
> >
> > Hmm, if the SMI handler is only implemented when using YABEL than how
> > is one supposed to use SeaBIOS to load vga?
>
> The i82830 SMI handler is implemented and enabled completely independent
> of any option rom initialization in coreboot itself.

Ok cool. Then I guess SeaBIOS just needs to be able to load vga bios and 
mbi rom. Correct?