Thanks for the response. So to the experts out there: I want to add the SIS 630 based board support from freebios to freebios2. Is there a HOWTO I can reference to do this... --- Nathanael Noblet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday, March 17, 2004, at 02:26 PM, Frank wrote: > > > I must be missing something here but in freebios v1 there is > > plenty of supprt for the SIS chip sets. I downloaded > freebios2 > > (thanks you everyone for the information) but I don't see > any > > support for the SIS chips. I thought freebios2 was a > superset of > > freebios1 and would therefore have all of the freebios > support > > plus some. it doesn't appear to be that way. Am I missing > > something... > > Not superset, improved, rewritten port of freebios1. Freebios1 > had some > limitations / weaknesses in that it was difficult to add a new > board. > Memory initialization was difficult and lots of the code was > assembly, > which speaking for myself isn't a skill many people excel at I > would > imagine. > > Freebios2 addresses some of the problems developers were > having with > freebios1. Although I am completely unfamiliar with the amd64 > stuff > alot of what freebios2 does is facilitate that arch so the > features and > such could be added. New boards should be started on > freebios2, any > existing code from freebios1 can be brought into freebios2 I > would > imagine as it is needed. (You have to realize I am not a > freebios > developer) just trying to answer some of the questions I think > I know > the answers to so the developers can develop. > > -- > Nathanael D. Noblet > Gnat Solutions > 412 - 135 Gorge Road E > Victoria, BC V9A 1L1 > > T/F 250.385.4613 > > http://www.gnat.ca/ >
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