[coreboot] coreboot BIOSisms  Kevin O'Connor kevin at
koconnor.net Tue Jun 10 04:18:35 CEST 2008  On Mon, Jun 09, 2008
at 07:03:46PM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: > On Sun, Jun 08, 2008
at 11:37:40PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > >
http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2008-May/034688.html
> >  > > I'm basically advocating option (c). > If no, how can
we fix that?  Hi Peter,  I'm torn on this question myself.  I
can see both sides of the issue.  I do think there are some
high-level requirements:  * These tables (PIR, mptable, acpi,
smbios) need to be generated one   way or another.  All the
major OSs in use today need them - a   machine that can not run
all the major OSs is at a distinct   disadvantage in the market
place.  * It is a bad idea to force legacybios (or any payload)
to be board   specific.  Doing so would require vendors to
commit code to multiple   repos.  It would fragment the
development efforts and lead to  * Most of the info in the
tables can not be reasonably auto-detected   by the payloa