[coreboot] [RFC] Here we go... the SLOF biosemu for coreboot-v3

Myles Watson mylesgw at gmail.com
Fri Dec 12 18:55:12 CET 2008



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [mailto:c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net]
> Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 10:17 AM
> To: ron minnich
> Cc: Myles Watson; Pattrick Hueper; coreboot at coreboot.org
> Subject: Re: [coreboot] [RFC] Here we go... the SLOF biosemu for coreboot-
> v3
> 
> On 12.12.2008 17:27, ron minnich wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Myles Watson <mylesgw at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Any comments from the rest of the list?  There's still some cleanup to
> be
> >> done, but it works as advertised.  I'll Ack it and commit it if no one
> >> chimes in.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > have not had a chance to test. If it will do no harm I'm ok with it.
> >
> 
> There might be a considerable size increase if we take into account that
> our x86emu has been optimized for size by Ollie Lho.

I built qemu with and without the patch with the emulator x86emu.

For me it takes 200 bytes in stage2/segment1 and 11 bytes in
stage2/segment2.

Since it implements a few new opcodes, that's not surprising.  I suppose we
could make those opcodes dependent on using the new emulator, but it doesn't
seem worth it.

With biosemu enabled, it takes just over 3K more in segment 1 and 31 bytes
in segment 2.  As advertised: larger, but not huge.

Thanks,
Myles





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