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Subject: RE: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/4] Add GPL bios as a submodule
Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 21:37:26 +0300
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To: 'Avi Kivity' <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: 'Anthony Liguori' <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, 'Dustin Kirkland' <kirkland@canonical.com>, 'Glauber Costa' <glommer@gmail.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, 'Alex Graf' <alex@csgraf.de>

> What does Coreboot give us over seabios?

You asking :)

- It is much better maintained and sponsored by technology leaders (IBM,
AMD, Intel).
  Also as I understood some of bios stuff is patented, IBM bought these
patents and contributed them to Coreboot project.
- I expect it will do support all recent stuff (new ACPI specs, UEFI and
etc) much faster than seabios.
- It is written for real modern hardware as well so it is validated on real
life as well.

> Doesn't Coreboot use seabios for legacy OS?

No idea ...

Stanislav

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

Stanislav wrote:
> And similar question: why don't you think about switching to Coreboot ?
>   

What does Coreboot give us over seabios?

> What is the status Coreboot now ? Is it working for legacy OS ?
>   

Doesn't Coreboot use seabios for legacy OS?

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