[SeaBIOS] Re: [RFC] [PATCH] fw/coreboot: Don't scan all of memory

[Raul Rangel]

> Before it didn’t boot? Or did it just take a very long time?

It just took a very long time.
> I am currently looking into this. Testing with coreboot for QEMU Q35
> with SeaBIOS as payload, corebooot writes the coreboot table below.
> Writing coreboot table at 0x7ff99000
>   0. 0000000000000000-0000000000000fff: CONFIGURATION TABLES
>   1. 0000000000001000-000000000009ffff: RAM
>   2. 00000000000c0000-000000007ff73fff: RAM
>   3. 000000007ff74000-000000007ffa1fff: CONFIGURATION TABLES
>   4. 000000007ffa2000-000000007ffd1fff: RAMSTAGE
>   5. 000000007ffd2000-000000007fffffff: CONFIGURATION TABLES
>   6. 00000000b0000000-00000000bfffffff: RESERVED
>   7. 0000000100000000-000000017fffffff: RAM

Ideally we could avoid scanning and just lookup:
ACPI       10. ade61000 00024000