[SeaBIOS] [Xen-devel] Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/2] Basic SeaBIOS support for Xen HVM

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 12:02:07PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 01:17 +0100, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> > If you have test code, I'd be curious to see a patch on the mailing
> > list - it may help later to understand the use cases for SeaBIOS.
> The diff (vs. the patches I already posted) is attached, it's diffstat
> is:

Thanks.  I understand it's just test code.

> >  (At various points, it's been discussed whether SeaBIOS
> > should generate ACPI tables for coreboot,
> 
> Would that involve pulling a bunch of mainboard specific stuff from
> coreboot into SeaBIOS?

The idea - when it was last raised - was to provide raw info in a
coreboot specific manor (via the "coreboot tables"), and then have
SeaBIOS populate ACPI/SMBIOS/MPTable/etc. from that info.  It was
never pursued.

-Kevin