From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1VMiVS-00012r-Fm for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 13:59:10 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60322) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VMiVM-00012D-AL for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 13:59:09 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VMiVG-0003py-U2 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 13:59:04 -0400 Received: from mail-ea0-x22a.google.com ([2a00:1450:4013:c01::22a]:38649) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VMiVG-0003ps-M0 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 13:58:58 -0400 Received: by mail-ea0-f170.google.com with SMTP id h14so4355246eak.29 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 10:58:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type; bh=ZZMyx+MHkKtWrqyAmzipEV4wNZSGR17BtDmf+/VR5nU=; b=NAFDTZAtJC/bfxO6I1icQbsUGtOFQaEcFGRLHTN/h5fqlMFb9kDQ/lVi2QThpw0BjV rkCW27/6di3AQKGtr81dNiUuH3lGDBcOlpO0W1tAt3Ni94AM6iK3fo6iFSrRA71HzBBp cS3/U7wB5TYSoL1C7H2uhgtPxTQ/VEy26TUJNNFbKD3A2vOnQp75H25woB5sk9QODa/K WSDrg/Jmr6FX5wkhJF0d4SLIMxOEMV2eNCB1VTOul2Dl3ebFaRSSj5GOPowuuxppDeX+ eqG6MF66Xtm796+OWXdete6B6qisNUFQ98grdxAo8UlXcMrPeBif4hfRDooB9zcAzWHO fUVQ== X-Received: by 10.15.108.202 with SMTP id cd50mr3662428eeb.68.1379613537588; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 10:58:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.113] (31-249.1-85.cust.bluewin.ch. [85.1.249.31]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id i1sm13153973eeg.0.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 19 Sep 2013 10:58:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <523B3B53.9030204@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 19:58:43 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130821 Icedove/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB Subject: Re: grub as option rom References: <523774F1.2050203@jan-reiss.de> In-Reply-To: <523774F1.2050203@jan-reiss.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.1 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="----enig2QJWPAIJBASLSWJMPEFTG" X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:4013:c01::22a X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 17:59:09 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) ------enig2QJWPAIJBASLSWJMPEFTG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 16.09.2013 23:15, Jan Reiss wrote: >=20 > Hi there, >=20 > as more and more mainboards become dual bios compatible and are > flashable online via flashrom. > i thought it might be a good idea if grub could be compiled as option > rom to be included into the standard bios firmware. > Does anyone have an idea how to achive this, i found plop as a > bootmanager which is capable to be installed as option rom, so i > thought maybe grub is able to do this too? > This was attempted by Robert Milan in the past. While this does work, option roms are very limited in size (typically few KiBs for non-VGA option roms) which limits usefullness a lot You can hwever use GRUB as coreboot payload. > Best Regards from GER, > JR >=20 >=20 > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel >=20 ------enig2QJWPAIJBASLSWJMPEFTG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Icedove - http://www.enigmail.net/ iF4EAREKAAYFAlI7O2AACgkQNak7dOguQgnQDAD9FEmxfJk/WQZ1Bf2TP3T4EtwP 90Q1X6xVxj4oANYM4+kA/RdH4xI91y1EdwcQrREC2Mx8O0TzmpT2FUaeOh1AxgV+ =+leJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------enig2QJWPAIJBASLSWJMPEFTG--