[SeaBIOS] Re: patch: add run-time option to load but not execute option roms

2021-05-22 Thread Leah Rowe via SeaBIOS
On 20/05/2021 19:15, Kevin O'Connor wrote: Unfortunately it's not valid, in the general case, to deploy an option rom and not run it. The option rom itself can alter its size field and roms are known to do that. Without running the rom, it's often not possible to get its size. If it's not

[SeaBIOS] Re: patch: add run-time option to load but not execute option roms

2021-05-20 Thread Kevin O'Connor
On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 12:25:27AM +0100, Leah Rowe via SeaBIOS wrote: > From anecdotal reports, sometimes it is useful; I've heard of instances where > certain Nvidia graphics cards can, if using the nouveau driver on a GNU+Linux > system, be used without running any option ROM, but where the

[SeaBIOS] Re: patch: add run-time option to load but not execute option roms

2021-05-15 Thread Leah Rowe via SeaBIOS
On 16/05/2021 00:25, Leah Rowe via SeaBIOS wrote: Hi, Can someone review this patch? It's a very simple one. Applied on top of commit 9b30973d7db7572dc8bae301a1f8259992e6d215 using `git am` I'm Leah from the Libreboot project Sorry, I forgot to add -s when doing commit. Newly attached