LinuxBIOS Porting HOWTO

[Jan Kok]

People,   I've written several pages of a "LinuxBIOS Porting HOWTO" which tries to fill in some of the spaces between the existing documents, answer some of the beginner's questions I initially had, and give some information that might be useful to those who might wish "...to boldly port where no one has ported before."   I thought I'd mention this work in case someone else is doing something similar, we can avoid duplicate effort.   It's still in a rough state, I'd rather work on it some more before inflicting it on everyone.  But the main topics are listed below.  Any thoughts on this, feel free to reply publicly or privately.   Cheers, - Jan   * Choose a motherboard. * Choose a way to program your new BIOS parts. * Prepare hardware tools for debugging your BIOS code. * Obtain the source code that you will start with. * Decide what components will go into your BIOS.   (Contains a discussion of the typical structure of LinuxBIOS and the bootup sequence) * Prepare config files, run NLBConfig. * Edit, compile, program your FLASH, test, debug, etc.