Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/4] Add GPL bios as a submodule

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

Stanislav wrote:
>
>> Doesn't Coreboot use seabios for legacy OS?
>>     
>
> No idea ...
>   

 From the FAQ:

>
>       What is coreboot?
>
> It performs just a little bit of hardware initialization and then 
> executes a so-called payload <http://www.coreboot.org/Payloads>.
>
> Some of the many possible payloads are: a Linux 
> <http://www.coreboot.org/Linux> kernel, FILO 
> <http://www.coreboot.org/FILO> (a GRUB-like bootloader for booting 
> from disk), GRUB2 <http://www.coreboot.org/GRUB2>, Open Firmware 
> <http://www.openbios.org/Open_Firmware>, Etherboot 
> <http://www.coreboot.org/Etherboot>/GPXE 
> <http://www.coreboot.org/GPXE>, SeaBIOS 
> <http://www.coreboot.org/SeaBIOS> (for booting Windows XP, Windows 
> Vista, Windows 7, NetBSD and Linux), and many others 
> <http://www.coreboot.org/Payloads>.
>

So it seems to make little sense to load coreboot just to load seabios.  
Of course I'd like to see coreboot supported, but seabios looks like a 
better primary target.

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Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.