2012/8/21 Christian Gmeiner christian.gmeiner@gmail.com:
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 :)
- 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
As I found out this can be done via nvram. So coreboot set the filename of the EPI file to use and seabios/... etc can simply use it.
- 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.
It could also be possible to store the EPI data at a defined memory area where the option rom can simply check for existing identifiers and checksum.
Any hints are really welcome.
--- Christian Gmeiner, MSc