I need some help on the following: - S3 VGABIOSes are trying to use the timer. I put the vga setup at the end of hardwaremain(), hoping that the timers were on. They are not. Can somebody see why port 40/43 are not doing anything. - XT PPI. What is this? ATI VGABIOS needs it - INT 6. What is this? - We need a good linuxbios-capable mainboard with an AGP slot. Any pointers or suggestions?
I've started this thing but I need some smart people to help finish it. If we can get VGA up we've just increased the potential user base by a good bit. All the code is now committed. I have attached my config file for the ASUS CUA for those who want to test. Please note that if you don't use the VGABIOS stuff the footprint is ZERO. There is no impact to working linuxbios. thanks ron
# Sample config file for ASUS CUA with DoC Millennium (as root) target asus_cua # Asus CUA mainboard asus/cua # Enable Serial Console for debugging option SERIAL_CONSOLE=1 # Enable MicroCode update and L2 Cache init for PII and PIII option UPDATE_MICROCODE=1 option CONFIGURE_L2_CACHE=1 # use DOC MIL option USE_DOC_MIL=1 docipl mainboard/asus/cua/ipl.S dir /src/bioscall # Use the internal VGA frame buffer device # option HAVE_FRAMEBUFFER option CONFIG_VGABIOS=1 option CONFIG_REALMODE_IDT=1 option CONFIG_PCIBIOS=1 # Path to your kernel (vmlinux) linux ../ # Kernel command line parameters commandline root=/dev/hda5 console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty0 single option MTRR_ONLY_TOP_64K_FLASH=1
