Etherboot

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Documentation is now handled by the same processes we use for code: Add something to the Documentation/ directory in the coreboot repo, and it will be rendered to https://doc.coreboot.org/. Contributions welcome!

Download Etherboot --- Please use 5.2.6

Config changes needed for LinuxBIOS support

src/Config

    1. Select which buses etherboot should support

CFLAGS+= -DCONFIG_PCI

  1. CFLAGS+= -DCONFIG_PCMCIA
    1. For prompting and default on timeout
    2. CFLAGS+= -DASK_BOOT=3 -DBOOT_FIRST=BOOT_NIC

CFLAGS+= -DBOOT_FIRST=BOOT_NIC CFLAGS+= -DBOOT_SECOND=BOOT_DISK # If you would like to attempt to boot from other devices as well as the network.

    1. CFLAGS+= -DBOOT_SECOND=BOOT_FLOPPY
    2. CFLAGS+= -DBOOT_THIRD=BOOT_DISK
    3. CFLAGS+= -DBOOT_INDEX=0


    1. for btext console support
    2. CFLAGS+= -DCONSOLE_BTEXT
    3. for direct PC kbd support

CFLAGS+= -DCONSOLE_PC_KBD

    1. for FILO support it will make main call pci_init

CFLAGS+= -DCONFIG_FILO


arch/i386/Config

    1. CFLAGS+= -DPCBIOS
    1. Compile in k8/hammer support

CFLAGS+= -DCONFIG_X86_64

    1. Options to make a version of Etherboot that will work under linuxBIOS.

CFLAGS+= -DLINUXBIOS -DCONFIG_TSC_CURRTICKS -DCONSOLE_SERIAL -DCOMCONSOLE=0x3f8 -DCOMPRESERVE -DCONFIG_PCI_DIRECT -DELF_IMAGE

    1. VGA

CFLAGS+= -DCONSOLE_DIRECT_VGA