Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Ollie Lho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>Adam Agnew wrote: >> >> >>>I'll resend this message as I believe it was lost. Please see Ron's >>>response about turning the IDE controllers on in the mainboard section. >>> >>> >> >> Adam, >> Could you give me more detail on your current status >>about LinuxBIOS + IDE boot ?? I am looking for any solution >>to get rid of DoC. >> > > Ollie what is your situation with the DOC? Are you just looking > for alternatives or do you have a genuine problem? >
I just get bored with DoC :-). Actually we are looking dor an alternative way to do things. The current everything in DoC style means that SiS is putting all its eggs in an sole supply device. This is not good from business point of view. Beside, many cumsomers want DOM anyway. > As far as things go Adam has a proof of concept implementation that > seems to work. I couldn't get it to boot my kernel but it looked > like a stupid bug that should take just a couple of hours to debug. > > Beyond that I believe he made it work with redboot code, so while > he can freely redistribute it, he cannot include it in a GPL work > like linuxBIOS, or etherboot. > I don't get this. If LinuxBIOS is used as a loader to load whatever 2nd loader Adam happened to put in (RedBoot) without any kind of linkage. Is it still breaking the GPL ?? Ollie
