Bryan Hundven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hey everyone @linuxbios, and Happy New Year!
>
> I was wondering if I could be of any help.
You never know until you try.
> I have an Asus P2B-D (D for dual... Not the scsi) Board.
> 2 P-II 350MHz
> 128M of SDRam
> and of course... Linux.
>
> If I have to I can run the board in single processor mode.
>
> I consider myself an asm novice, and I am alright with c.
>
> What I here though the grape-vine is that there is some Forth code in
> this... How hard is that to learn?
For isn't too bad. But it is ``open''bios on the macs and suns
that uses it.
> I would like to help you guys get LB on 440BX.
>
> Can someone tell me where to start learning about linuxbios (or forth if
> need be)?
Read the code ask questions.
The basic idea of linuxBIOS is to replace a conventional bios with a
mininal amount of setup code and a linux kernel. The tricky bit is
that this requires at least 512K of ROM.
The borring part of the work you need to track down all of the data
sheets for the chips on your motherboard so you can understand them
well enough to program them. There is already a port to the 440bx
but it doesn't do ram auto configuration yet, so there is definetily
some interesting work to do to get that board working.
Eric
