[SeaBIOS] [RFC] vgahooks: Add Google stumpy, lumpy, and link boards to intel vgahook list.

[Stefan Reinauer]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Kevin O'Connor <kevin at koconnor.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 04:50:27PM -0800, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> > Yes, I think it's worth having them in upstream SeaBIOS!
> >
> > I've been thinking about creating a way of passing this information
> between
> > coreboot and SeaBIOS in the future, so we don't have to keep the handlers
> > around twice. One way of doing that would be to have the handler live in
> > SMM and have SeaBIOS do an SMI command to get the right answers. Would
> you
> > be open to something like that?
>
> That seems over kill to me.  The Intel VGA stuff seems to be pretty
> stable and it's only a few fields that need to be passed back.  What
> about placing the required info in a coreboot table - then SeaBIOS can
> just pass back the desired fields and not have to have board by board
> specific logic.
>

Ok.. Let's see how this goes for future boards. I think that could work


>
> BTW, I didn't port over "Alex" as it seems to be totally different
> from the other boards.
>

Great. Alex was an old Atom system that was never shipped with coreboot

-- 
Stefan Reinauer
Google Inc.
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