[coreboot] LegacyBIOS -> SeaBIOS in buildrom

Myles Watson mylesgw at gmail.com
Fri Jul 4 21:43:26 CEST 2008



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin O'Connor [mailto:kevin at koconnor.net]
> Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 12:33 AM
> To: Myles Watson
> Cc: Coreboot
> Subject: Re: [coreboot] LegacyBIOS -> SeaBIOS in buildrom
> 
> Hi Myles,
> 
> On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 03:43:43PM -0600, Myles Watson wrote:
> > This patch changes the name of LegacyBIOS to SeaBIOS, everywhere but the
> git
> > URL, which hasn't been updated yet.  It also updates the hardcode.diff
> patch
> > now that the memory value is read from the coreboot tables, and fixes
> the
> > handling of that patch.
> 
> Thanks for doing this.

No problem.
 
> The new git url is at git://git.linuxtogo.org/home/kevin/seabios/
> 
> The old url will still work, but it would be better to use the new
> one.

I'll switch it on Monday.

> > +--- a/src/config.h	2008-07-03 15:12:21.000000000 -0600
> > ++++ b/src/config.h	2008-07-03 15:13:23.000000000 -0600
> [...]
> > + // Support generation of a PIR table in 0xf000 segment (for emulators)
> > +-#define CONFIG_PIRTABLE 1
> > ++#define CONFIG_PIRTABLE 1
> > + // Support generation of ACPI PIR tables (for emulators)
> > +-#define CONFIG_ACPI 1
> > ++#define CONFIG_ACPI 1
> > + // Support int 1a/b1 PCI BIOS calls
> > ++#define CONFIG_PCIBIOS 1
> > + // Support int 15/53 APM BIOS calls
> > +-#define CONFIG_APMBIOS 1
> > ++#define CONFIG_APMBIOS 1
> > +-#define CONFIG_USE_SMM 1
> > ++#define CONFIG_USE_SMM 1
> 
> CONFIG_ACPI, CONFIG_PIRTABLE, and CONFIG_USE_SMM don't actually do
> anything when CONFIG_COREBOOT is on.
> 
> You probably do want to disables CONFIG_FLOPPY_SUPPORT - I'm not
> convinced that the floppy code will work on real hardware.

All right.

Thanks,
Myles






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