[coreboot] [RFC] port bochs-bios to gcc
Kevin O'Connor
kevin at koconnor.net
Fri Feb 22 22:02:12 CET 2008
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 09:46:11PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
>
> this is a great project and I hope you succeed making the Bochs BIOS code
> more easily extensible/changeable. Please note that a substantial part of
> the code should be obsolete when run with coreboot.
Thanks Carl-Daniel.
I'm not aware of much overlap. As I understand it, coreboot mostly
deals with low-level hardware initialization. The bochs-bios was
designed to be used in an emulator and thus doesn't really bother with
hardware initialization.
Most of what is in the bochs-bios deals with implementing the legacy
bios software interrupts, building of the memory bios tables, and
loading of the OS from floppy/harddrive.
Am I missing something?
-Kevin
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