[coreboot] Run PCI rom before PCI bus scan??

[Peter Stuge]

On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 02:44:43PM -0500, joe at smittys.pointclark.net wrote:
> Yes, the pci rom currently lives in the bios. It is a three part
> rom, Intel boot agent, Intel PXE, and the base code (I think the
> base code is the only real part I need??).

Intel southbridges support "flash sharing" so that both the system
CPU and the NIC can use one and the same flash chip.

If there is indeed a blob in the factory BIOS that is required for
your NIC to operate, then you'll have to teach coreboot about this
flash sharing scheme. At the very least it will require putting the
NIC blob at a predefined location in flash, but I doubt it stops
there.

Since your NIC is onboard and does not work I suppose this is what
you're up against.


//Peter