BIOS Autodetection Design

[Ray Jones]

>The objective is not to write OpenBIOS such that (in practice) a single
>compiled image can boot any chipset. Rather, the autodetect objective is
>that a set of chipsets may be chosen at compile time from which the image
>is about to boot. Thus, for example, a MB manufacturer could compile a
>BIOS such that one image would work for all the MBs that they manufacture.


If this (compile time selection) is the objective, why call it autodetect? I
would have thought from the name that one image fits all. Then, at run time
it is autodetected, requiring all of the tables at once.

-Ray