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authorBill XIE <persmule@hardenedlinux.org>2022-06-04 14:53:33 +0800
committerFelix Held <felix-coreboot@felixheld.de>2022-06-07 12:56:01 +0000
commit1003670da0c34c671d118286ba9f7a83cb6494d6 (patch)
tree8a5b70aabeeedf7e463938fffb7f36a28f01950f /Documentation
parentd617980b0a85e55c58fefdcdd22c02e754258927 (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>
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@@ -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)