[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/3] x86: Support booting SeaBIOS

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Tue Mar 1 03:04:12 CET 2016


On 29 February 2016 at 00:54, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> SeaBIOS is an open source implementation of a 16-bit x86 BIOS.
> It can run in an emulator or natively on x86 hardware with the
> use of coreboot. With SeaBIOS's help, we can boot some OSes
> that require 16-bit BIOS services like Windows/DOS.
>
> As U-Boot, we have to manually create a table where SeaBIOS gets
> system information (eg: E820) from. The table unfortunately has
> to follow the coreboot table format as SeaBIOS currently supports
> booting as a coreboot payload.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>
> ---
>
> Changes in v2: None
>
>  arch/x86/Kconfig              | 10 ++++++++++
>  arch/x86/include/asm/tables.h |  3 +++
>  arch/x86/lib/tables.c         | 15 +++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 28 insertions(+)

Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>


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