[LinuxBIOS] ADLO & biosdecode

Jun Koi junkoi2004 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 5 09:51:35 CET 2007


On 12/5/07, Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de> wrote:
> Peter Stuge wrote:
> > Hello Jun,
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 12:54:42PM +0900, Jun Koi wrote:
> >
> >> If I use the original QEMU BIOS, at least biosdecode reports BIOS32
> >> Service Dir + PCI IRQ table + ACPI.
> >>
> >> So why LinuxBIOS removes those information?
> >>
> >
> > This is on purpose.
> >
> > One motivation for LB is that most if not all interfaces that are
> > associated with the term BIOS should be deprecated.
> >
> > LB does not strive to be BIOS compatible by design.
> >
> But this is not true for Jun's setting with LinuxBIOS + ADLO.
>
> I don't think we remove anything on purpose there.

Yes, I guess the information (biosdecode) must be there, as I use Boch
BIOS with LinuxBIOS, but not LinuxBIOS only.

And interestingly, there is no option to make 32bit BIOS in
ADLO/bochs/bios/Makefile. I simply generated bochs/bios/bios.bin by
running "make" inside ADLO/

So I think the question becomes: how to get 32bit BIOS now?

Thanks,
Jun




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