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From: | Avi Kivity |
Subject: | Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/4] Add GPL bios as a submodule |
Date: | Sun, 17 May 2009 22:07:03 +0300 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090320) |
Stanislav wrote:
Doesn't Coreboot use seabios for legacy OS?No idea ...
From the FAQ:
What is coreboot?It performs just a little bit of hardware initialization and then executes a so-called payload <http://www.coreboot.org/Payloads>.Some of the many possible payloads are: a Linux <http://www.coreboot.org/Linux> kernel, FILO <http://www.coreboot.org/FILO> (a GRUB-like bootloader for booting from disk), GRUB2 <http://www.coreboot.org/GRUB2>, Open Firmware <http://www.openbios.org/Open_Firmware>, Etherboot <http://www.coreboot.org/Etherboot>/GPXE <http://www.coreboot.org/GPXE>, SeaBIOS <http://www.coreboot.org/SeaBIOS> (for booting Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, NetBSD and Linux), and many others <http://www.coreboot.org/Payloads>.
So it seems to make little sense to load coreboot just to load seabios. Of course I'd like to see coreboot supported, but seabios looks like a better primary target.
-- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.
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