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| author | Stefan Reinauer <stepan@openbios.org> | 2003-09-18 14:16:08 +0000 |
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| committer | Stefan Reinauer <stepan@openbios.org> | 2003-09-18 14:16:08 +0000 |
| commit | dcdbdfb46e7075515fef5be386e14c42463f7a5e (patch) | |
| tree | ca43f548ddcb695d4843fe8a69a55e68ba325ca8 /util/extensions/legacybios/README | |
| parent | 59549598c08d5bdcee01bfb91dd9d147edf9fee7 (diff) | |
| download | coreboot-dcdbdfb46e7075515fef5be386e14c42463f7a5e.tar.xz | |
first shot of legacybios emulation.
does not work yet.. sorry :-(
git-svn-id: svn://svn.coreboot.org/coreboot/trunk@1119 2b7e53f0-3cfb-0310-b3e9-8179ed1497e1
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diff --git a/util/extensions/legacybios/README b/util/extensions/legacybios/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c2177721cc --- /dev/null +++ b/util/extensions/legacybios/README @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +Legacy bios emulation +--------------------- + +goal of this software is to initialize pci devices with legacy x86 +option roms with no regard to the underlying platform. Use legacybios +as an ELF payload to LinuxBIOS/etherboot. + +Currently this is really hackish and it does not work, but it's on the way. + +Using a trampoline, this code could be shrinked to be really small +on the x86 platform, since no cpu emulation is needed. +Currently all platforms use x86emu for testing. + +--- to be done --- + + Stefan <stepan@openbios.info> |