[coreboot] elf payload legacybios - boots on v3 in qemu

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Tue May 13 03:08:56 CEST 2008


On 13.05.2008 02:59, Peter Stuge wrote:
> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 03:36:29PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
>   
>> There are several ways to support per-board info in "legacybios":
>>
>> * Have legacybios populate the information:
>>
>>   * By a) compiling legacybios on a board by board basis with info for
>>     each board merged into the compile process
>>
>>   * or b) have the info passed to legacybios from corebios in some raw
>>     format, and then have legacybios build the PC specific tables from
>>     it
>>
>> * or, have coreboot build the PC specific tables:
>>
>>   * and c) put them somewhere in memory where legacybios can then copy
>>     it to the 0xf0000 segment
>>
>>   * or d) work out some arrangement where coreboot puts them into
>>     0xf0000 in such a way that legacybios doesn't overwrite those
>>     areas when it is also loaded into that segment.
>>     
>
> I strongly prefer b) above over anything else. I specifically do not
> want coreboot to know about BIOS tables. coreboot already exports
> some information. If legacybios needs more information, let's add
> that to the coreboot tables.
>   

We already have some (external, probably not committed) code to create
per-board ACPI tables and other stuff. Having a payload generate this
from e.g. the device tree needs a device tree parser in the payload, a
thing I'd like to avoid for size reasons. Having a Kconfig option
"Generate legacy tables" would be the way to go IMHO.


Regards,
Carl-Daniel




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