[coreboot] GSoC project(SCSI boot)__status report

Marc Jones Marc.Jones at amd.com
Wed Jun 18 17:28:07 CEST 2008


Joseph Smith wrote:

> Hmm. Then how are we going to go about this? What do you suggest Kevin?
> Could we set up coreboot to call LegacyBIOS at a certain point, execute it,
> and then jump back to coreboot? Kind of like vm86/x86emu does for VGA? If
> so at what point in the coreboot process do we want this to happen?
> 

I think that it will have to do that if you want to run the VGA ROM (and 
other ROMs) as part of the normal PCI initialization. The interrupt 
code will need to be in place at that time.

Marc



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