[coreboot] legacybios updat

[Stefan Reinauer]

Myles Watson wrote:
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: coreboot-bounces at coreboot.org [mailto:coreboot-bounces at coreboot.org]
>> On Behalf Of Kevin O'Connor
>> Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 6:02 PM
>> To: coreboot at coreboot.org
>> Subject: Re: [coreboot] legacybios update
>>
>> On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 03:14:22AM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've just pushed a new elf payload to:
>>>
>>> http://linuxtogo.org/~kevin/legacybios/bios.bin.elf-20080518
>>>
>>> This version should be free of qemu dependencies.
>>>       
>> Just wanted to give an update.  On Sunday, Uwe was able to run some
>> tests with "legacybios".  What was found:
>>
>> * coreboot-v2 can run legacybios.  It does require disabling
>>   valid_area() check in in src/boot/elfboot.c
>>     
>
>
> Coreboot writes the PIRQ and ACPI tables in this area.  Right now it doesn't
> matter since legacybios doesn't use this information, but eventually we
> might want to change this.
Also, DMI is going there, too, in my implementation that I hope to
publish soon.

I wonder what we do with those tables..  normal bios puts a bunch of
them at the end of memory. We have limited locations to put them at,
because the OS has to find them.

How much of the F segment is actually used by legacybios? Should we put
that stuff into the lbtable as an option and have legacy relocate it? Or
is there a safe place where we can put them to begin with..?

Stefan