On 29 Aug 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> David Chow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > ? 2001 ?? 27 ??? 02:55?Eric W. Biederman ??:
> > > Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > > If you have the specs then we might be able to get somewhere. We've got
> > > > an initial 694 port in the tree I think.
> > >
> > > There is an inital 686B support but it needs some work.
> > >
> > > > You need to really thoroughly understand SDRAM well. Check out the amd
> > > > 760 port to see what it takes. The VIA chips have proven to be some of
> > > > the harder chips to get working so this will take some effort.
> > >
> > > Note the SDRAM setup for the AMD760 does a lot more then is needed on
> > > a lot of other platforms. This is because the AMD760 allows a lot of
> > > timings to be set, and I calculate them all on the fly from the serial
> > > EPROM, on the DIMMS. None of it is very hard but it is tedious.
> > >
> > > Eric
> >
> > Where is the files? Where can I get them? I just want to get start and go in
> > deep to reach the problems. I don't even have a clue on how to start this. At
> > least I have to read some of the related linuxbios sources to get start with.
>
> O.k. The code is available on sourceforge.
> Look through http://www.linuxbios.org under code. The only part that isn't
> mentioned is the that the moudle name is freebios.
>
> There are some howtos on how to compile linuxBIOS and that is a good place
> to start. It is under docs on the website. By now things are a little
> dated but should work.
>
> I'm planning on starting a how to port linuxBIOS howto next month, but only
> time will tell if I get that working :)
>
> Eric
>
I have already looked at the source tree before. But it doesn't tell
anything related with VIA chipsets. There are also no instruction to how
to start a porting. That's right, we might need some instructions or a
HOW-TO on this topic. Since this will absolutely help the freebios
development. If we want other manufacturers to use linux bios, we must
have at least some instruction on how to start the porting code. We are
not bios production team are we? So why bothering spending most of the
resources on making complete bios for certain motherboards? My personal
opinion is to work on documentation first so that we can spread out the
spirit of LinuxBIOS. It is like what I am doing at the moment, making
linux native hardware to support linux, as this should be done before the
creation of linux!! Unfortunately, not many manufacturer gives full
support on their native hardware for the Linux OS. My spirit is to build a
good Linux native platform and that's why I go for linuxBIOS, although I
am sticking with Award at the moment, as there is no full functional BIOS
for my test boards.
regards,
David
