I never said it would be easy, I simply was stating that the reference
designs tend to stick to documented specifications, typically. Of
course, writing a BIOS is hard enough.
John Baldwin had the audacity to say:
> On 19-Jun-00 Coleman Kane wrote:
> > If you start out with a board based on a reference design, say the Intel
> > SE440BX, you already have access to all this info. Most chipset vendors have
> > info on this sort of thing up on their webpage, I know intel is really good
> > about this sort of thing (though I am not so sure about the 810/815/820/840
> > chipsets).
>
> Not the chipset, all the hardware like the PIC's, the RTC, the CPU fan,
> the keyboard controller, etc. etc. ad nauseum. Go back earlier in the
> thread and read some of the AML Mike posted that has to be done just to
> turn the CPU fan on.
>
> > Mike Smith had the audacity to say:
> >>
> >> > On Sat, 17 Jun 2000 07:35:51 +0900, "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > >Loader(8) runs using BIOS services, and loads the kernel from any drive
> >> > >that BIOS recognizes. It has also been enhanced with PXE knowledge, so
> >> > >he can load from that to.
> >> >
> >> > My mistake, as Ron pointed out, since loader uses the BIOS services, it
> >> > can't run when there is no BIOS. Now if someone writes a loader that
> >> > doesn't use a BIOS...
> >>
> >> You could easily do this, just as soon as you find a motherboard vendor
> >> that will tell you how to initialise all their hardware.
>
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