"John P. Looney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 09:13:28AM -0600, Ronald G Minnich mentioned:
> > On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, John P. Looney wrote:
> > > First off, can I damage a board by getting things wrong ? There was some
> > > mention of it, which upsets me slightly.
> > by getting what wrong. You can only damage a board by physical
> > mishandling. We try to avoid that. Is the flash on your board soldered in
> > or socketed.
>
> It's a socketed BIOS, which is why I'd like a eeprom programmer for it,
> so that if I do have a dead board, I can rip the PROM out & flash it with
> a standard BIOS etc.
If the board supports flashing from the board you can have two BIOS chips,
one with the original BIOS and with for development of linuxBIOS and swap
them.
> > For linuxbios stuff you should be on linuxbios, we don't want to annoy a
> > non-linuxbios list with linuxbios discussions.
>
> Ah. Of course. I didn't realise the projects were almost the same...just
> slightly different goals. LinuxBIOS is more what I'm aiming for.
Some one might pick up freebios one day but the real interest seems much more
to be on linuxBIOS.
> > > Lastly, is there a more recent kernel than the 2.4.0-test12 that works ?
> > 2.4.7
>
> Excellent. That'll do. In ./src/kernel_patches/ they all mention "SiS".
> Is the kernel patch very board-specific ? I've only gotten past stage one
> so far.
The kernel patches are all very minor. They are just to fill in little details.
For the most part kernel patches are not necessary.
> > I would be very happy to see you accomplish this. We still don't have a
> > solid 440bx port for a motherboard that anyone can buy. We've written off
> > the dell 350.
>
> Hmm. Well, this board isn't a very popular one (it's an "industrial"
> board we are using for embedded use. Though, if it works, I'd not mind
> trying other ones. Big problem being that I've not done this sort of stuff
> before!
Many of us started out in that position. If you can learn it should not be
a problem.
> In the CVS tree, there is mainly code for the GX board. No mention of BX.
> Is there code for a BX board anywhere ?
There is code for BX in there. Though mostly not by board. Look under
src/chipset/intel/440bx
Eric
