[coreboot] fixing i810 onboard vga

ron minnich rminnich at gmail.com
Fri Nov 7 18:20:10 CET 2008


On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll at gmail.com> wrote:

> Why not Having a config option turning the "error and not running the rom"
> into "warning and run the rom anyways". Would that be risky ?
> CONFIG_RUN_SLOPPY_EXPANSION_ROMS

I think a linux tool to validate -- and fix -- the rom in some way
makes the most sense.

In your case the fix is easy. It does not hurt, also, to get people to
realize just how broken the proprietary bios code is. Hiding that
brokenness seems a bad idea.

ron




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