On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Peter Stuge wrote:
Exactly right. But with the right flash memory on the mainboard you can use the operating system (Linux) as payload directly.
Ok, thanks. I've seen this discussed on this list; dependent on size of flash mem.
I'm not sure I agree that the bar must be lowered. Much of the development going on in LinuxBIOS is _heavily_ technical and spans across quite a few different architectures. It's not right or useful to force developers to work and/or communicate below their capabilities, and certainly not in an open source project. I would hate it if someone tried to do that to me.
I really don't want to force anyone to do anything they don't want to do. My request/suggestion/whatever was merely what someone else suggested ("programmer's manual" etc.), not dumb-down the project as a whole, or "forcing" developers to hand-hold "newbies" like me... I apologise, if it came across like that. Maybe it's my english (it's not my native language).
I do believe however, that all the technical prerequisite knowledge should be listed, so that people can get up-to-speed on their own. I'll try to work for this and I think that the wiki is a great forum.
That's a great idea. And I also think the wiki is a great thing to have. :-)
SPD is Serial Presence Detect, the name of an I2C bus between the northbridge and all RAM modules. Each RAM module has an EEPROM with more or less correct information about how memory initialization code should set up the memory controller for correct size and optimal performance. Quite frequently the information is busted. :(
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These are short for Vendor ID and Device ID. VID and DID (or PID, Product ID) are id numbers assigned by organizations such as PCI-SIG and USBIF to hardware manufacturers allowing software to identify hardware in a reliable manner. The ids are stored inside the device, whether it's PCI or USB. Also true for PCMCIA/CardBus.
Ok, thanks again for educating me!
Best regards
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