[vbox-dev] What prevents from using a different BIOS ?

[Nikolay Igotti]

  Huihong,

Maybe you can use EFI then? It is modularized (while not very well 
engineered, IMO), and have some USB support.

Nikolay


Huihong Luo пишет:
> thanks for the pointer.
> We also have some usb code from our boot loader can be used.
> The problem with current vbox bios code, all code is in the single 
> huge file (rombios.c). In order to support usb, we need some modulized 
> clock and pci code. Clock timers are needed for scheduling usb frames.
>
> --- On *Tue, 6/22/10, Alexey Eremenko /<al4321 at gmail.com>/* wrote:
>
>
>     From: Alexey Eremenko <al4321 at gmail.com>
>     Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] What prevents from using a different BIOS ?
>     To: vbox-dev at virtualbox.org
>     Date: Tuesday, June 22, 2010, 3:30 PM
>
>     On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 12:17 AM, Huihong Luo <huisinro at yahoo.com
>     <http://us.mc343.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=huisinro@yahoo.com>>
>     wrote:
>     >
>     > I am trying to extend the vbox BIOS module to support USB
>     devices, and flash drive boot.
>     >
>     > The current BIOS is 64k in size, what is the consequency if we
>     increase the size to 128K? the usb code is rather large, 64k won't
>     hold it.
>     >
>     > Or, perhaps a better way, is to replace the whole bios code. Is
>     there anything specific to vbox that makes this not to work? if
>     not, is it going to be really difficult to port another BIOS to
>     use with vbox?
>     >
>     > The current bios code is monolithic, not easy to extend.
>     >
>
>     Before you write any such thing, please take a look at SeaBIOS here:
>     http://www.coreboot.org/SeaBIOS
>
>     It seems this BIOS supports USB disk boot, and it was ported to
>     run on Qemu.
>     NOTE: I have not tried it, so I don't know about any potential
>     problems.
>
>     The big problem of changing BIOS, is that we must ensure *everything*
>     works with all guest OSes, which is not easy.
>
>     --
>     -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"
>
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