[coreboot] SeaBIOS question and cross compilation fix.

[Jordan Crouse]

ron minnich wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Corey Osgood <corey.osgood at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I'm trying to catch up on this discussion. Are we talking about doing away
>> with x86emu and vm86 in favor of SeaBIOS, or adding SeaBIOS to the list of
>> options?
> 
> we're talking about removing option ROM support from coreboot, because
> we can never do the job in as general a way as people need, unless we
> become a full bios. Seabios can. So if you want option rom support,
> you will load seabios in to the F segment and let it run the option
> roms. Part of the problem is that option roms will want to call bios
> services, and coreboot doesn't do those services; but seabios does.

Also - for optionROMs like VGA, we may want to use the services from 
within a payload, so we need to make sure that the support 
infrastructure survives.  Running the optionROM initialization within 
one of the emulators works fine and dandy, but the ISV disappears when 
the emulator returns.

Jordan