[coreboot] ADLO for buildrom
Uwe Hermann
uwe at hermann-uwe.de
Thu May 1 02:11:23 CEST 2008
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 01:48:26AM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> Myles Watson wrote:
> >> On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:58:56 -0600, "Myles Watson" <mylesgw at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> It boots Windows XP in QEMU.
> >>>
> >> Sweet:-)
> >>
> >> What about booting XP on real hardware?
> >>
> >
> > The loader needs to be customized for each board, or we need to pass some
> > information like RAM map from coreboot before that will work.
> >
>
> Which is why it really should, no, it has to be built into coreboot
> itself. coreboot already has all the knowledge required for this.
> Duplicating efforts that we did in C in another assembler chunk is plain
> b0rked.
Full ACK, if this could be a snippet of C code in coreboot that would be
fantastic!
Uwe.
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