[LinuxBIOS] ADLO & biosdecode

[Myles Watson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linuxbios-bounces at linuxbios.org [mailto:linuxbios-
> bounces at linuxbios.org] On Behalf Of Jun Koi
> 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?

You need to add a new version of the loader since the BIOS is larger, and
use the larger elf header.

I'm planning on doing that in the near future.

Myles