[coreboot] legacybios update

Kevin O'Connor kevin at koconnor.net
Thu May 22 04:37:52 CEST 2008


On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 08:19:55AM -0600, Myles Watson wrote:
> > * A more detailed analysis of filo shows that it has a more advanced
> >   ide init (it does a pci scan for ide controllers and it has
> >   "floating bus detection").  I'm going to work on advancing the
> >   "legacybios" code to also do this.
> 
> Could coreboot pass the information for the IDE controllers to "legacybios"
> when it passes memory size etc?

The pci scan code is straight forward.  I don't think we need to
extend core boot to avoid it.

-Kevin




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