[coreboot] SeaBIOS question and cross compilation fix.

Kevin O'Connor kevin at koconnor.net
Sat Nov 8 02:55:53 CET 2008


On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 04:00:21PM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> I am experimenting with v3 and better integration of SeaBIOS and
> coreboot. For that, I am copying a SeaBIOS image to the FSEG during
> coreboot's VGA init code. In addition I added another 32bit entry point
> to SeaBIOS at 0xffc0 (Thus, living at 0xfffc0)

BTW, instead of adding a new 32bit entry point to SeaBIOS, why don't
you teach the existing entry point to return?  (When a suitable
SeaBIOS config option is set.)

> void run_bios(struct device *dev, unsigned long addr)
> {
>         int i;
>         void (*init_systembios)(void) = (void *)0xfffc0;
>         copy_systembios();
>         init_systembios();

Change above two lines to:

          init_archive(&archive);
          execute_in_place(archive, "bios.bin.elf");

>         real_mode_switch_call_vga((dev->bus->secondary << 8) |
> dev->path.pci.devfn);
> }

-Kevin




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