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Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 21:09:54 +0200
From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [coreboot] [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0
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To: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, Coreboot <coreboot@coreboot.org>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>, Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>, Jordan Justen <jljusten@gmail.com>

On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 08:30:30PM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote:
> Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > Exactly. I am glad to hear that coreboot has support for QEMU,
> > but seabios does the job already, so why add more layers?
> 
> If SeaBIOS does not need any code at all for QEMU machine init I
> agree there's no point in considering coreboot.
> 
The code is there already.

> If QEMU machine specific init is in fact needed in that SeaBIOS, then
> the answer isn't as obvious..
> 
May be it is possible to drop seabios init code and use coreboot, but I
prefer to dial with one codebase for all BIOS needs. By moving to seabios
we try to improve situation not make it worse.

--
			Gleb.