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Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 05:22:08 +0100
From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/4] Add GPL bios as a submodule
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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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>

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Stanislav wrote:
> >And similar question: why don't you think about switching to Coreboot ?
> >What is the status Coreboot now ? Is it working for legacy OS ?
> >  
> 
> 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?

-- Jamie