[coreboot] ADLO for buildrom

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Thu May 1 17:42:31 CEST 2008


Myles Watson wrote:
> It's not soon enough for me.  It works now in QEMU, even though there is a
> lot to be improved.  I'd like to put it into buildrom so that it is easy to
> hack on.
>   
"It"?

ADLO has been in our CVS/SVN repo since 2002. It should not be hard to
hack on it...

>   
>> Does legacybios from Kevin O'Connor boot Vista?
>>     
>
> It probably does in QEMU, but not the 64-bit version.  The last I heard that
> was the status of the Bochs BIOS.
When I booted vista, i could interestingly only boot the 64bit version
in qemu but even that needed a bunch of patches.

I suggest we wait until legacybios becomes the standard bios of qemu
before we try to replace a well tested implementation with it.




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