[SeaBIOS] [PATCH] Seabios: allow mapping of multiple PCI option ROMs to one

Kevin O'Connor kevin at koconnor.net
Sat Jun 1 05:18:21 CEST 2013


On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 08:32:16AM -0500, Dave Frodin wrote:
> I see now, that's pretty slick. The problem I see with that approach is
> that coreboot would need to add all of these files for a family14 mainboard.
[...]
> And all of these files for a family15 mainboard
[...]
> 
> Since at build time we only know what cpu family the rom is being
> built for and not (necessarily) what the exact graphics ID is.
> 
> The method I proposed would have one family specific "vendev-map.bin" file.

Yes, but it would be quite difficult to inspect vendev-map.bin.  I
think an ascii interface is preferable.

One could go a level up and make a "symbolic link" type in cbfs (this
is effectively what my patch did).  The advantage would be that
cbfstool could display it in a nicer format.

-Kevin



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