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

[Stanislav]

> 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

-----Original Message-----
From: Avi Kivity [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2009 9:12 PM
To: Stanislav
Cc: 'Jamie Lokier'; 'Glauber Costa'; 'Anthony Liguori'; 'Dustin Kirkland';
address@hidden; 'Alex Graf'
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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