[coreboot] YABEL and images in LAR files

[Myles Watson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pattrick Hueper [mailto:phueper at hueper.net]
> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 1:38 PM
> To: Myles Watson
> Cc: jordan at cosmicpenguin.net; Coreboot
> Subject: Re: [coreboot] YABEL and images in LAR files
> 
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Myles Watson <mylesgw at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> well following the BIOS spec (i think its somewhere in the PNP BIOS
> >> spec... i have to check... ) the BIOS copies the ROM to RAM... since
> >> YABEL uses its own "virtual" memory it _has_ to copy the ROM to its
> >> RAM...
> >
> > Yes.  Right now there's just a redundant copy, since Coreboot copies it
> to
> > RAM too.
> 
> true, but YABEL still has to copy it, after all the code runs from
> copy... can we modify coreboot to not copy the image from ROM if YABEL
> is selected, but pass the location of the image in ROM to YABEL?
> 
> ...
> >> Currently, the ROM is always copied from the Expansion ROM bar of PCI
> >> devices.... i havent had to initialize any onboard devices. If there
> >> is a parameter to run_bios that points to the location of the Option
> >> ROM i could pass that parameter to YABEL and only use the Expansion
> >> ROM BAR if that parameter is not set (null?).
> >
> > That's what I was thinking.
> 
> Ok, i will try to implement that and send patches.

That would be great.  Once that's done I think I'll try YABEL on a "factory"
BIOS from inside Coreboot.  Qemu would be an easy place to try that.

Thanks,
Myles