[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) writes: > Jordi Polo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > hello, i'm a member of the tuxbox project (www.tuxboxproject.com) we want to > > make a linux based console (not like indrema) and we obviusly we'll need > > linbios to make it boot fast and boot in a "console way" TM . > > The motherboard we are going to use is the one of the topic , i think you > > don't support it so i need to know if you are going to support it or if a > > kernel hacker (with no bios knowledge ) could himself make the linbios > > support for it. Or if it's know any special issue with it . > > I'd say if you can hack the kernel you can probably port linuxBIOS to > another chipset. We have no legacy BIOS code so what passes as BIOS > knowledge really doesn't help. > > However. Note that after working something memory initialization for > linuxBIOS you will have no question that C is a high level language > and that the kernel is an easy environment to program in. > > But the only real hard part is making sure you can get all of the > documentation. Open Source hasn't been present in the hardware arena > yet, so vendors are still being educated. Err. Make that firware arean. Eric
