[coreboot] [PATCH] Add easy SeaBIOS as payload option

Kevin O'Connor kevin at koconnor.net
Tue Dec 28 01:00:23 CET 2010


On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 10:11:24PM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
[...]
> +patch: checkout
> +	test -r seabios/.patched || \
> +	perl -pi -e "s,#define CONFIG_COREBOOT 0,#define CONFIG_COREBOOT 1,;" \
> +		 -e "s,#define CONFIG_DEBUG_SERIAL 0,#define CONFIG_DEBUG_SERIAL 1,;" \
> +		 -e "s,#define CONFIG_VGAHOOKS 0,#define CONFIG_VGAHOOKS 1,;" \
> +		 -e "s,#define CONFIG_AHCI 0,#define CONFIG_AHCI 1," \
> +		 seabios/src/config.h

CONFIG_AHCI is a bit experimental.  Has there been success with it on
real hardware?

> +checkout:
> +	test -d seabios && ( cd seabios; git pull ) || \
> +	git clone git://git.linuxtogo.org/home/kevin/seabios.git seabios

I'd hate to have an accidental commit brick someones machine.  This
should probably pull out a tagged version.  Another option would be to
commit a compressed bios.bin.elf file to svn (the gzip'd elf file is
only 56K).

-Kevin




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