[coreboot] Error executing VGA ROM with coreboot
Peter Stuge
peter at stuge.se
Mon Nov 2 12:11:03 CET 2009
Mansoor wrote:
> > maybe the graphics driver in Linux has the ability to initialize
> > hardware completely?
>
> I tried this option. But it didn't initialize VGA
Ok. If you prefer this solution you could, as I mentioned, try to
contact the Linux graphics driver developers. There are people from
Intel working actively there. Search keyword is drm-intel
> > Second, you can use both SeaBIOS and FILO together.
>
> Thanks for the detailed explanation.
> I am using this method as an alternative (coreboot loads SeaBIOS
> then SeaBIOS loads FILO, FILO loads Linux) now. And it works fine.
Nice!
> Extra boot time is the seaBIOS hardware initialization time... and
> I say it is negligible compared to the 20-30 sec delay of factory
> BIOS.
He-he. :)
//Peter
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