[SeaBIOS] [PATCH 0/8] seabios: pci: multi pci bus support

[Peter Stuge]

Isaku Yamahata wrote:
> > > This patch set allows seabios to initialize multi pci bus and
> > > 64bit BAR.
> > 
> > It seems like this is starting to replicate things that are
> > already in coreboot. Is that an accurate observation?
> 
> I haven't looked at coreboot. So I don't know.

It it a firmware for many PC systems. It brings up CPU, RAM and
buses, including HyperTransport, PCI Express, PCI and PnP.


> If so, the existing bar assignment is already replication, isn't it.

That would also be true yes, however maybe the resource allocator in
SeaBIOS for qemu is so far simpler than the generic one in coreboot,
so it was not a lot of duplicated code, while the PCIe seems to be a
fairly big addition, of something that I think coreboot may already
be able to do. It seems to me that now may be a time to consider if
and how coreboot fits with qemu.


//Peter