[coreboot] legacy bios support and coreboot

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

Hi Kevin,

great writeup! Any chance you can add that to the coreboot wiki?

On 06.05.2008 03:36, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> [...]
> Some of the hardware accesses made by the "legacybios" code appear to
> be specific to hardware in the emulator.  The code attempts to enable
> ram shadowing of the memory segment at 0xf00000 - it does this so that
>   

One zero too many?

> it can put acpi/mptable/smbios tables into that area.  After it is
> complete, it attempts to disable writes to that region.  The code
> sequence looks to be specific to intel north/southbridges.  It isn't
> necessary to disable writes to 0xf0000 (though it would be nice), but
> it is necessary to have the ability to alter that memory.  Also, there
> are stubs in "legacybios" for apm support - should one want to
> implement this on real hardware the appropriate power saving code
> would need to be implemented.
>   

Regards,
Carl-Daniel