[coreboot] coreboot BIOSisms

Joseph Smith joe at settoplinux.org
Tue Jun 10 03:26:09 CEST 2008



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> On Behalf Of Rudolf Marek
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> Subject: Re: [coreboot] coreboot BIOSisms
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> > Yes, that is exactly how I would like it to work.
> 
> Sorry I think this is not possible due to ACPI bloatness. It would require
> ASL
> compiler RUNTIME. And as Marc already wrote, the legacybios would need to
> know
> lot a lot of details about each board. I would suggest to leave it as it
> is and
> let the coreboot create the tables. If you dont like them, you can always
> ignore/delete them (or not create if you are creating some OS which can do
> that)
> 
Couldn't we just add a little mini program in between the two that is just
responsible for reporting all of the necessary data from coreboot to
legacybios?

Thanks,
Joseph Smith
Set-Top-Linux
www.settoplinux.org





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