[coreboot] Geode LX VGA BIOS Patch

[Kevin O'Connor]

Hi Chris,

On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 03:48:58PM -0400, Chris Kindt wrote:
> Kevin O'Connor wrote:
>> As before, the main seabios patch looks good to me.  The "modehack"
>> patch, of course, needs to be cleaned up before committing.  Are you
>> still working on this?
>>
> Yes, it is on my todo list. I was thinking about using a device
> operations structure or macros to replace the "if(hw_type)"
> statements. This might be overkill at the moment, however it would
> be helpful for any future hardware specific expansion. I am lacking  
> insight on what such a struct should be. The following example is  
> crafted mostly to fix the current problems I am having.

Is the intent to support multiple hardware backends with the same
option rom binary?

The "if(hw_type)" scheme has the benefit that gcc can remove the
unused code from the resulting binary.  I think that will be harder
for gcc if function pointers are used.

-Kevin