[coreboot] How coreboot passes e820-style system memory map to the OS?
Stefan Reinauer
stepan at coresystems.de
Thu Mar 25 18:46:04 CET 2010
On 3/25/10 5:39 PM, Darmawan Salihun wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wonder how coreboot passes the "e820-style" system memory map to the OS.
>
With SeaBIOS, the OS or bootloader just calls an e820 int call.
With FILO or Grub2 the linux kernel takes a parameter structure that is
filled with the memory map, kernel command line and other information.
Stefan
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