[coreboot] [PATCH] SeaBIOS VGA hooks

[Stefan Reinauer]

On 6/9/10 8:11 PM, Joseph Smith wrote:
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> On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 19:55:36 +0200, Stefan Reinauer
> <stefan.reinauer at coresystems.de> wrote:
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>> On 6/9/10 7:54 PM, Joseph Smith wrote:
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>>> On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:45:28 +0200, Stefan Reinauer
>>> <stefan.reinauer at coresystems.de> wrote:
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>>>> SeaBIOS VGA hooks for Getac P470 and Roda RK886EX notebooks
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>>> This is awsome!
>>> Acked-by: Joseph Smith <joe at settoplinux.org>
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>>> Any chance for a SMI Handler for SeaBIOS coming up?
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>> No... What would that be good for?
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> Uh, MBI?
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The coreboot SMI handler already implements that. Remember SMI handlers
stay active even when the OS is loaded.

For security reasons coreboot even locks SMM so that SeaBIOS (or a Linux
kernel module or root process) couldn't  just install a new handler.
When experimenting that lock can of course be disabled in the coreboot
source.