On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: > heh, no problem. In the meantime, is it possible for me to pick through > NLBConfig and glean the easier ones? I haven't looked at the source for > NLBConfig yet, so I may be asking a dumb question here. :-)
no, because arbitrary options can be set in Config files. So do a findgrep for all the option commands in all the Config files, sort and uniq it, and you have a list. > Ok so am I correct in assuming that since there are on Config files in any of > the superio/SMC/ directories that the superio.c file is not used at all? I > based my fdc37n958fr configuration off of the fdc37c67x's configuration, but > did not bother with the superio.c since it went off on an entirely different > tangent. (enable PNP?) No, because some mainboard files yank in superios directory. > Alright, I think I have some semblance of a clue. :-) Is there any > documentation on the general boot process that LinuxBIOS uses? i.e. very > basic init, superio init (so we have a serial port), chipset init (enable > sdram, ide, whatever, test RAM if enabled), decompress to RAM address > 0xwhatever (why/how 0xwhatever was chosen), other init, jump to payload? Or > did I just pretty much describe it? :-) I did a summary a few years ago, which I *should* have put on the web page and did not. We need somebody to write it up, it has changed a lot. ron _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
