Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH] Seabios: allow mapping of multiple PCI option ROMs to one

[Dave Frodin]

Kevin,

Did you ever get a chance to look over this patch?

Thanks,
Dave

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Frodin" 
> To: "Kevin O'Connor" 
> Cc: "seabios" 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 5, 2013 8:45:11 AM
> Subject: Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH] Seabios: allow mapping of multiple PCI option ROMs to one
>
> Kevin,
>
> Attached is the new option rom mapping patch.
> I was hunting around for an existing SeaBIOS ftn that would convert
> ascii strings to a binary value (i.e. sscanf) but couldn't find one.
> If there's already one in the code I can replace the text_to_binary()
> with it.
>
> I tested this on a AMD family14 platform. The vendev-map file I added
> to CBFS looks like this...
>
> 10029803-10029802
> 10029804-10029802
> 10029805-10029802
> 10029806-10029802
> 10029807-10029802
> 10029808-10029802
> 10029809-10029802
>
> Each line ends with a NEWLINE character (0x0A).
>
> On my test platform the actual graphics ID of the part is 10029804.
> The vgabios gets added to CBFS with the name "pci1002,9802.rom".
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
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[PATCH] Seabios: allow mapping of multiple PCI option ROMs to one

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 07:40:17AM -0500, Dave Frodin wrote:
> Kevin,
>
> Did you ever get a chance to look over this patch?

I don't see the gain in introducing a config file parser for this
task.  What was wrong with the approach of creating "alias" files?

-Kevin