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

Bin Meng bmeng.cn at gmail.com
Fri Mar 11 03:28:31 CET 2016


On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 10:04 AM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> 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>

applied to u-boot-x86/next, thanks!


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