Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] - BIOS after Gentoo is up

2005-05-07 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Fri, 6 May 2005, James wrote: The most uncooperative company is Intel, which has started a sham open source BIOS project. The software consists of all the unimportant parts of of a BIOS, without the hard parts. It won't run, and doesn't bring us any closer to a BIOS that does run. It is just a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] - BIOS after Gentoo is up

2005-05-06 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Thu, 5 May 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: My main interest in this area is one that most here won't probably have much experience on - Gentoo-xbox. In the case of Gentoo proper running on the XBox there is a large amount of confusion and differing opinions about BIOS. Clearly you have to make a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] - BIOS after Gentoo is up

2005-05-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/6/05, Peter Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Afaiu, you don't need to modify the bios. http://www.xbox-linux.org/Software_Method_HOWTO AFAIU this is not appropriate and won't work for the newest versions of the XBox. (Version 1.6b) The newest versions of the XBox have stuff in the

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] - BIOS after Gentoo is up

2005-05-06 Thread James
Norbert Kamenicky noro at xmedia.sk writes: Yes, I many times removed BIOS extension chips (not needed during kernel boot) from different cards, just to boot faster... if it's not easy, there is always a possibility to cut chip select/ enable (CS/CE) wire near to chip's pin. OK Linux

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] - BIOS after Gentoo is up

2005-05-05 Thread James
Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com writes: 2) If my machines are depending on system BIOS is there a way for me to tell what calls are being made to system BIOS, or at least understanding what parts of system BIOS Linux is using? Hello Mark, First post did not seem to make it. Here's a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] - BIOS after Gentoo is up

2005-05-05 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/5/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Norbert Kamenicky noro at xmedia.sk writes: The purpose of BIOS is not to provide complete and excellent HW maintenance in multitasking environment, but system boot up only. Maybe there are some exceptions, but generaly if kernel is alive, u can

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] - BIOS after Gentoo is up

2005-05-05 Thread Nick Rout
I am sure there must be xbox-linux mailing lists of forums out there somewhere... However I don't know why you would need to put a different bios in. On Thu, 5 May 2005 16:34:16 -0700 Mark Knecht wrote: My main interest in this area is one that most here won't probably have much experience

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] - BIOS after Gentoo is up

2005-05-05 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/5/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am sure there must be xbox-linux mailing lists of forums out there somewhere... There are. They are mostly full of confused people with many different agendas. It's very hard to weed out the responses that make sense. 99% of the people inhabiting

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] - BIOS after Gentoo is up

2005-05-05 Thread Roy O. Wright
Howdy, Just did a search linux xbox bios and hit http://xbox-linux.org which sounds like exactly what you are looking for. HTH, Roy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] - BIOS after Gentoo is up

2005-05-05 Thread Mark Knecht
Been there, done that. Lots of info but none on this question. thanks, Mark On 5/5/05, Roy O. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy, Just did a search linux xbox bios and hit http://xbox-linux.org which sounds like exactly what you are looking for. HTH, Roy --