[coreboot] ADLO for buildrom

Myles Watson mylesgw at gmail.com
Thu May 1 18:16:25 CEST 2008



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Reinauer [mailto:stepan at coresystems.de]
> Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 10:15 AM
> To: Myles Watson
> Cc: joe at settoplinux.org; 'Coreboot'
> Subject: Re: [coreboot] ADLO for buildrom
> 
> Myles Watson wrote:
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Stefan Reinauer [mailto:stepan at coresystems.de]
> >> Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 9:44 AM
> >> To: Myles Watson
> >> Cc: joe at settoplinux.org; 'Coreboot'
> >> Subject: Re: [coreboot] ADLO for buildrom
> >>
> >> Myles Watson wrote:
> >>
> >>> I was hoping that we could pass it the same information we pass the
> >>>
> >> Linux
> >>
> >>> kernel.  The e820 maps etc.  I haven't looked into it too much, but
> ACPI
> >>> tables for that information would be fine for me too.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> But there the cat bites its tail. legacybios is the one that produces
> >> e820. And so far it produces pirq and acpi, too. It just doesnt make
> >> sense like this on real hardware.
> >> bochs bios is sure not much better.
> >>
> >>
> > So how does the kernel get an e820 map when you load it from filo?  That
> was
> > the pathway I meant.
> >
> filo makes one from the coreboot table.

Great.  That's what I think ADLO should do too.

Myles





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