[coreboot] Minimal seabios for coreboot
Joseph Smith
joe at settoplinux.org
Fri Aug 8 02:15:45 CEST 2008
On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 19:09:02 -0400, Kevin O'Connor <kevin at koconnor.net>
wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 02:52:11PM -0400, Joseph Smith wrote:
>> Maybe I missed something....
>> Normally option roms are supposed to get copied to memory just below the
> 4G
>> boundry (bios size - 4G) and then exicuted from there. Why not just have
>> seabios copy it to memory and exicute it there??
>
> Option roms are generally stored in eeproms on PCI cards. However,
> some option roms for devices embedded on the motherboard are stored in
> the system flash instead.
>
Right sorry, I was talking about embedded devices requiring option roms,
like onboard vga.
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Thanks,
Joseph Smith
Set-Top-Linux
www.settoplinux.org
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