[coreboot] SeaBIOS debug output

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Wed Jul 16 20:57:15 CEST 2008


Myles Watson wrote:

>> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 02:51:12PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
>>     
>>> If you mean using seabios to implement the option rom scan
>>>       
>> ..
>>     
>>> maybe it would work.
>>>       
>> Yes, I think it would work very well.
>>     
>
> SeaBIOS has no way of knowing where onboard ROMs are stored.  That
> seems like a problem that needs to be solved.
Yes, I think the seabios should not probe for option roms actively in a
coreboot scenario, but rather

1) do init
2) wait for coreboot to copy and call the option roms
3) do some exit / cleanup
4) finish coreboot
...
5) call int19 if seabios is _also_ going to be used as payload.



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