[coreboot] PCI BIOS Extension ROM in v3

ron minnich rminnich at gmail.com
Tue Jan 22 20:00:16 CET 2008


On Jan 22, 2008 10:20 AM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
<c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net> wrote:

> I'd say we refuse to execute the ROM in v3. If the ROM is broken, we
> have no way to determine how broken it is. Unconditional execution may
> prevent booting the machine, thereby forcing an out-of-system flash of
> coreboot with ROM execution disabled.

I agree. I have yet to see a real ROM broken in this way.

Print the warning message and refuse to run it. And get QEMU to fix
both their broken VGA rom and their broken BIOS :-)

ron




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