On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 03:21:57PM -0500, Bari Ari wrote:
> >
> > We're currently looking into creating a minimal BIOS on our own, just enough
> > to boot Linux in some way. But then I found the LinuxBIOS project and it
> > seems like it would fit us very well. However, there is a slight problem
> > with just putting together the needed code for the SC1200 "mainboard";
> > proprietary object code is required to enable some of the functions of the
> > chip. :\
>
> What functions do you refer to? Why don't you ask NSC for the
> Expressloader Source, it contains all the BIOS source in assembler.
> We've been using it the past few months and are working on a version of
> LinuxBIOS for the GX1 and SCx2xx.
Yeah, the BootLoader Developer's Toolkit (BLDT) is what I'm working with as
well. But it still has proprietary object code, the option ROMs that are
only distributed in binary form.
> > My immediate concern is to get Linux booting on the system, but, if
> > practical, it would also be very nice to add SC1200 support to the LinuxBIOS
> > project. I honestly think that would be of interest to NSC as well.
>
> I offered NSC to get LinuxBIOS running on all of the NSC development
> platforms months ago and they weren't interested.
That's too bad, I've understood that they want Linux to run on their
platforms. Both users and developers (=> NSC too) would benefit from the
speed and simplicity that LinuxBIOS offers.
I'm going to ask them about this as well, if more of their customers do,
hopefully they'll change their mind.
//Peter
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