From dcdbdfb46e7075515fef5be386e14c42463f7a5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefan Reinauer Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 14:16:08 +0000 Subject: 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 --- util/extensions/legacybios/README | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) create mode 100644 util/extensions/legacybios/README (limited to 'util/extensions/legacybios/README') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3