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Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 15:04:33 +0200
From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
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To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: 'Anthony Liguori' <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, 'Dustin Kirkland' <kirkland@canonical.com>, 'Glauber Costa' <glommer@gmail.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, 'Avi Kivity' <avi@redhat.com>, 'Alex Graf' <alex@csgraf.de>

On 18.05.2009 06:22, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>   
>> Coreboot offers no value over seabios because to run any OS, you have to 
>> run seabios as a payload of coreboot.
>>     
>
> In the list of Coreboot payloads, it has Linux in addition to GRUB,
> SeaBIOS etc.  Does that not mean you can run Linux as a payload
> _instead_ of SeaBIOS, and therefore boot Linux guests using Coreboot alone?
>   

Sure. It can also boot Plan 9 and others directly as a payload,
eliminating the need for SeaBIOS/GRUB2/FILO.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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