[coreboot] [ANN] Port of GPL vgabios to gcc

[Joseph Smith]

On Wed, 6 May 2009 23:53:24 -0400, Kevin O'Connor <kevin at koconnor.net>
wrote:
> I have made an initial pass at porting the open source vgabios at:
> 
> http://www.nongnu.org/vgabios/
> 
> from bcc/as86 to gcc.
> 
> The new code can be found in the SeaBIOS git repository.  To download
> and build the code use:
> 
> git clone git://git.linuxtogo.org/home/kevin/seabios.git
> cd seabios/
> make out/vgabios.bin
> 
> The resulting binary can be used on qemu.  For example:
> 
> cd seabios/
> make
> make out/vgabios.bin
> cp out/*.bin ../testqemu/
> qemu -L ../testqemu/ -hda myimage
> 
> 
> This new vga code is still preliminary.  I can start qemu, but there
> are known bugs and unimplemented features.
> 
> The goal of porting the vga bios to gcc is to make the code more
> understandable and easier to modify.  The code could potentially be
> enhanced to run on real hardware.  (The current code will only run on
> emulators.)
> 
Real Hardware? That would be really cool :-)

Great Work!!

-- 
Thanks,
Joseph Smith
Set-Top-Linux
www.settoplinux.org