[coreboot] SeaBIOS question and cross compilation fix.

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Fri Nov 7 01:17:46 CET 2008


Kevin O'Connor wrote:
>> Unfortunately, this does not seem to work. The machine jumps somewhere
>> else and will triple fault eventually.
>>     
>
> Hrrm.  Nothing looks immediately wrong.  Are you running this under
> qemu?  If so, one can attach gdb to qemu and set breakpoints in the
> guest.  I've used this in the past with success.
>
> http://bellard.org/qemu/qemu-doc.html#TOC46
>   
Ok, gotta try that. Thanks for the hint and pointer.

> BTW, in previous emails I highlighted some disadvantages with a
> tighter integration of seabios and coreboot.  Could you elaborate on
> the reasons why you think this is the best option?
Simple:

a) I don't want to maintain my own bios emulation in coreboot v3
b) I still want graphics initialized (and possibly more)
c) I don't want to use int19 booting / I don't want to use seabios as a
payload.
  * because I might be running in an emulator or not
  * because I am running other payloads and I want to spend as little
time in seabios as possible
  * because I think this is the only possible way to do a soft
transition of the code that is in coreboot these days and what we might
see some day in the future.

That said, I must have missed the mail you are talking about.

Stefan

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