Re: [U-Boot] [coreboot] U-Boot-x86 / coreboot Integration

2011-05-10 Thread Kevin O'Connor
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 01:27:30PM +1000, Graeme Russ wrote: > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 01:12:16PM +1000, Graeme Russ wrote: > >> What does Linux do? i.e. if you boot Linux from coreboot, how does it > >> o

Re: [U-Boot] [coreboot] U-Boot-x86 / coreboot Integration

2011-05-10 Thread Kevin O'Connor
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 01:12:16PM +1000, Graeme Russ wrote: > >> > for two or three graphics chipsets. SeaBIOS can initialize any VGA > >> > option ROM, but then you need SeaBIOS in the loop. > >> > Option ROMs are ageold technology and stupid, but they are still > >> > firmly entrenched in PC har

Re: [U-Boot] [coreboot] U-Boot-x86 / coreboot Integration

2011-05-10 Thread Kevin O'Connor
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 02:46:53AM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: > Graeme Russ wrote: > > >> Would be interesting to investigate implementing a stub in U-Boot to > > >> initialise and use VGA option ROMs > > > > > > VGA option ROMs call BIOS functions.  So, one needs a BIOS > > > implementation (eg, Se

Re: [U-Boot] [coreboot] U-Boot-x86 / coreboot Integration

2011-05-10 Thread Kevin O'Connor
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:40:23AM +1000, Graeme Russ wrote: > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > > VGA option ROMs call BIOS functions.  So, one needs a BIOS > > implementation (eg, SeaBIOS) or an emulator for them (eg, in > > coreboot). > &g

Re: [U-Boot] [coreboot] U-Boot-x86 / coreboot Integration

2011-05-10 Thread Kevin O'Connor
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:11:41AM +1000, Graeme Russ wrote: > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 4:03 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > > In message <4dc94cd4.2050...@gmail.com> you wrote: > >>  - coreboot payloads should be in ELF (linked to libpayload) > > > > Is this really necessary, assuming we have a self-co

Re: [U-Boot] [coreboot] U-Boot-x86 / coreboot Integration

2011-05-10 Thread Kevin O'Connor
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 09:44:00AM +1000, Graeme Russ wrote: > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 2:08 AM, Peter Stuge wrote: > > Graeme Russ wrote: > >>  - Do we care about legacy BIOS support (SeaBIOS) for now (I think > >>    not)? > > > > IMO it is not relevant to the integration of coreboot and U-Boot.

Re: [U-Boot] [coreboot] u-boot on x86 reloaded

2011-05-07 Thread Kevin O'Connor
On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 09:35:46PM +1000, Graeme Russ wrote: > - I'm in the middle of re-writing the entire real-mode switch code and > real-mode support in U-Boot. The new code allows you to write real-mode > code in C - I even have the Linux real-mode printf ported :) This will make > writing yo