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diff --git a/util/extensions/legacybios/README b/util/extensions/legacybios/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c2177721cc --- /dev/null +++ b/util/extensions/legacybios/README @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +Legacy bios emulation +--------------------- + +goal of this software is to initialize pci devices with legacy x86 +option roms with no regard to the underlying platform. Use legacybios +as an ELF payload to LinuxBIOS/etherboot. + +Currently this is really hackish and it does not work, but it's on the way. + +Using a trampoline, this code could be shrinked to be really small +on the x86 platform, since no cpu emulation is needed. +Currently all platforms use x86emu for testing. + +--- to be done --- + + Stefan <stepan@openbios.info> |