On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Kevin O'Connor <kevin@koconnor.net> wrote:
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 04:50:27PM -0800, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> Yes, I think it's worth having them in upstream SeaBIOS!
>
> I've been thinking about creating a way of passing this information between
> coreboot and SeaBIOS in the future, so we don't have to keep the handlers
> around twice. One way of doing that would be to have the handler live in
> SMM and have SeaBIOS do an SMI command to get the right answers. Would you
> be open to something like that?

That seems over kill to me.  The Intel VGA stuff seems to be pretty
stable and it's only a few fields that need to be passed back.  What
about placing the required info in a coreboot table - then SeaBIOS can
just pass back the desired fields and not have to have board by board
specific logic.

Ok.. Let's see how this goes for future boards. I think that could work
 

BTW, I didn't port over "Alex" as it seems to be totally different
from the other boards.

Great. Alex was an old Atom system that was never shipped with coreboot

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