Re: [coreboot] PCI BIOS Extension ROM in v3

2008-01-28 Thread Myles Watson
-Original Message- From: ron minnich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Jan 22, 2008 10:20 AM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd say we refuse to execute the ROM in v3. If the ROM is broken, we have no way to determine how broken it is. Unconditional execution may

[coreboot] PCI BIOS Extension ROM in v3

2008-01-22 Thread Myles Watson
Coreboot v3 refuses to initialize the VGA in QEMU because the PCI device ID's are mismatched. It turns out that the header has been overwritten by a copyright string, so that v3 is following a bad pointer into the ROM looking for the PCI device IDs and not finding it. Coreboot v2 still

Re: [coreboot] PCI BIOS Extension ROM in v3

2008-01-22 Thread ron minnich
On Jan 22, 2008 10:20 AM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd say we refuse to execute the ROM in v3. If the ROM is broken, we have no way to determine how broken it is. Unconditional execution may prevent booting the machine, thereby forcing an out-of-system flash of coreboot