[coreboot] SeaBIOS question and cross compilation fix.

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Sat Nov 8 21:52:17 CET 2008


Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> 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.)

My intention was to be as little intrusive to your code as possible.
Some caller might assume that jumping to 0xffff0 does what your code
does now. If I can't solve the problem differently, I will go that
route. Thanks for the hint.

Stefan

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