[coreboot] Where to find document for bayou.xml?

JasonZhao at viatech.com.cn JasonZhao at viatech.com.cn
Thu Feb 11 09:59:34 CET 2010


Hi Peter,
Sorry for late reply! 

Peter Stuge wrote:
>Personally I have used bayou version 0.2 successfully with changes in
what payloads should be included. I am not sure if version 0.3 has
worked for me yet.
The 0.3 version do not work with my COREBOOT. The revision of my
COREBOOT code is 4379, and I have disabled CBFS by set CONFIG_CBFS=0.

>What is the mode of operation that you want here? Do you want to use
the chain functionality so that coreinfo is started if SeaBIOS somehow
fails - or do you want a menu where the user chooses between SeaBIOS and
coreinfo?
I want COREBOOT can boot to XP on ATA device with SEABIOS, and boot to
another OS on flash device with FILO(for its support on USB).
The original idea is we wonder a system could fast boot to an OS(like
slitaz OS, 30MB size) located on USB flash device, based on the COREBOOT
code base. A platform target at Cloud Computing may have this
requirement. 
After the fail to try BAYOU, I found it is quite easy to call FILO from
SEABIOS. However at this time, I then found EHCI/OCHI are not supported
by LIBPAYLOAD, and UHCI is too slow to load a 30MB size OS. So I guess
we will have to accept a fast booting OS on ATA device. Even Ubuntu 10.4
can be a choice for us, since I heard that the second alpha of it claims
15 seconds boot-time.

JasonZhao 




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