[coreboot] SeaBIOS not running vga rom

Rudolf Marek r.marek at assembler.cz
Tue May 12 14:30:31 CEST 2009


Joseph Smith wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 12 May 2009 14:06:00 +0200, Rudolf Marek <r.marek at assembler.cz>
> wrote:
>>> Ok, but do you have vga output or just serial console.
>> if VGA is initialized in coreboot  -> use the free VGA bios as ROM for
>> Seabios.
>>
> oh so it just acts as a dummy rom for SeaBIOS?

Yes its not dummy - it is just normal VGA BIOS for VGA compatible hardware... So 
  once you have initialized that to this state, you can use that.

Kevin now started the rewrite to C, I think you can find some preliminary 
version in vgasrc/ of SeaBIOS

Rudolf




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