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author | Bill XIE <persmule@hardenedlinux.org> | 2022-06-04 14:53:33 +0800 |
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committer | Felix Held <felix-coreboot@felixheld.de> | 2022-06-07 12:56:01 +0000 |
commit | 1003670da0c34c671d118286ba9f7a83cb6494d6 (patch) | |
tree | 8a5b70aabeeedf7e463938fffb7f36a28f01950f /Documentation | |
parent | d617980b0a85e55c58fefdcdd22c02e754258927 (diff) |
Docs: Reword and extend SeaBIOS description
The sentence about using SeaBIOS as secondary payload sounded
confusing, so reword it. While at it, improve and extend on SeaBIOS
features.
Change-Id: Ic06b9f56ab8082f2e6eff5fd8d31525429fd948d
Signed-off-by: Bill XIE <persmule@hardenedlinux.org>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/64958
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Reinauer <stefan.reinauer@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@mailbox.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/payloads.md | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/payloads.md b/Documentation/payloads.md index e34289c91d..9df6d64e53 100644 --- a/Documentation/payloads.md +++ b/Documentation/payloads.md @@ -11,11 +11,11 @@ payload or can be made to work as one. [SeaBIOS](https://www.seabios.org) is an open source implementation of the PCBIOS API that exists since the original IBM PC and was extended -since. While originally written for emulators such as QEMU, it can be made -to work as a coreboot payload and all the necessary code is in SeaBIOS' -mainline code, or as a secondary payload load by another payload, e.g. it -can be loaded from GRUB2 with the following menuentry in the run time -config of GRUB2: +since. While originally written for emulators such as QEMU, it can be built +as a coreboot payload. It supports executing Option ROMs in a more complete +fashion than coreboot. It also supports Multiboot. + +When chainloaded from GRUB2, the following menuentry could be used: menuentry "SeaBIOS" --unrestricted { root=(cbfsdisk) |