Re: [coreboot] [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0

[Kevin O'Connor]

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.

SeaBIOS contains the code necessary to initialize the qemu hardware.

For the details see src/mtrr.c, src/pciinit.c, src/shadow.c, and
src/smm.c.  These codepaths are disabled when SeaBIOS is compiled for
coreboot.

-Kevin