Uwe Hermann wrote: > Hi, > > I have access to an old GA-6BXC motherboard > (http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ProductID=1445) > which I'll probably use for my first steps with LinuxBIOS. > > I see that FreeBIOSv1 had support for this motherboard, but not v2. Is > there some technical reason for this?
The looser that did that work dropped off the planet and hasn't been heard from for quite some time. ;-) > I'll probably try v1 first, Be careful. The ram init is hard coded to support only 2 ram configurations. I don't recall what other limitations may exist. That is some VERY old work from a much earlier time in LinuxBios history. > but > I'd like to move to v2 sooner or later. Should I get another motherboard > or can I try to port the code to v2? How much effort does that require, > usually? You might be better off with v2 but using some of the v1 code as a reference. Cheers! Ty -- Tyson D Sawyer iRobot Corporation Lead Systems Engineer Government & Industrial Robotics [EMAIL PROTECTED] Robots for the Real World 781-418-3329 http://www.irobot.com -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
