my ideas 1. acpi support? 2. OpenSolaris for AMD64 use OpenFirmware inferface 3. ADLO to support windows or FreeBSD 4. CAR in other x86 platform.... 5. kernel_tiny and kexec --------------- 6. MIPS64 support with LinuxBIOS?? 7. Native support to FreeBSD? 8. other chipset support plan/cordination: No double porting ....
YH On 8/10/05, Ken Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What topics will be covered at the LinuxBIOS Summit? > > Will it be limited to technical issues and things that directly > affect technical issues such as access to chip set specifications, > NDA issues, new BIOS technologies and LinuxBIOS' competition, etc.? > > Is making LinuxBIOS as popular and compelling as Linux and GNU/Linux > distributions a reasonable and desirable goal? > > Would support of operating systems other than Linux such as OpenSolaris, > xBSD, Plan 9, and MS Windows 2000/XP be a reasonable goal? Perhaps, > a payload similar to ADLO could be used for non-Linux OSes. > > LinuxBIOS is now extremely well designed and all the core developers > should get huge bonuses or well-deserved Kudos! However, sometimes > various mainboard builds break and some mainboard ports remain > incomplete. We need to support more chip sets and mainboards. How can > we do this? How can we make porting to new chip sets and mainboards easier? > > We might try to generate a generic flash image for each mainboard > that people new to LinuxBIOS can download and use with minimal time > and effort required. It could ask a few simple questions to customize > the boot with the option to store the answers to NVRAM. This could > be taken to the extreme of a single Live CD that boots Linux and runs > a script that identifies the chip sets and mainboard and gives the user > the option of flashing his BIOS device with an appropriate LinuxBIOS > image (or one that at least supports all critical devices). > > Will the LinuxBIOS Summit be rather open-ended like the above or will > there be a defined agenda or both? > > Sincerely, > > Ken Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxBIOS mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > _______________________________________________ LinuxBIOS mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
