On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 09:11:04PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Christer Weinigel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is anybody else using a SC1200, SC2200 or SC3200 based system and > > interested in getting LinuxBIOS running on that system? I'd be happy > > to share what I have now, but it does need to be cleaned up a bit > > first. There are a lot of more things that could be done too, such as > > optimizing the memory, there are at least another 256k of RAM that > > could be given to the Linux kernel, and of course there's graphics and > > sound to work on.
I used to work with a SC1200 system, developing firmware, with my former employer. I quit there Dec/Jan though. And they've gone out of business since. Had I still been there and they still been going, I would have loved to try out your code. I had some discussions with Bari Ari on the topic some while ago, as well. And what he writes in his mail on the SMM code and VSM and NSC being unhelpful is also quite true. I don't think they'll help anyone create an opensource BIOS for their systems when they have a subsidiary (Insyde) whose only business is to sell BIOS software for NSC platforms.. > > I've seen a few messages regarding getting Grub/Etherboot/Tiara > > running instead of linuxbiosmain. Has anybody done work in that > > direction? I used the BLDT from NSC/Insyde and put that together with Etherboot. It worked very well. My plan was to also add grub from Tiara in there, but I never got around to it. > LinuxBIOS can load an standalone ELF executable. you just set > the USE_ELF_BOOT=1 option. > This includes etherboot, and memtest86. > > Although etherboot requires a patch at the moment. > > Tiara was a strange offshoot. I don't know what became of them. > > Grub unfortunantely is very highly tied to the x86 bios. >From what I could gather, the grub version distributed with Tiara isn't. > > What I would like to do is to use grub to boot from a > > local hard drive/Compact Flash, or Etherboot to boot over network > > using a NatSemi DP83815 ethernet controller. Bingo. My former employer created legacy BIOS INT services so that LILO ran. But it took quite some time (as in a couple of manmonths). I don't really know why they didn't investigate grub from Tiara more closely. //Peter -- irc: CareBear\ irl: Peter Stuge
