On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:
heh, no problem. In the meantime, is it possible for me to pick through NLBConfig and glean the easier ones? I haven't looked at the source for NLBConfig yet, so I may be asking a dumb question here. :-)
no, because arbitrary options can be set in Config files.
So do a findgrep for all the option commands in all the Config files, sort and uniq it, and you have a list.
Ok so am I correct in assuming that since there are on Config files in any of the superio/SMC/ directories that the superio.c file is not used at all? I based my fdc37n958fr configuration off of the fdc37c67x's configuration, but did not bother with the superio.c since it went off on an entirely different tangent. (enable PNP?)
No, because some mainboard files yank in superios directory.
Alright, I think I have some semblance of a clue. :-) Is there any documentation on the general boot process that LinuxBIOS uses? i.e. very basic init, superio init (so we have a serial port), chipset init (enable sdram, ide, whatever, test RAM if enabled), decompress to RAM address 0xwhatever (why/how 0xwhatever was chosen), other init, jump to payload? Or did I just pretty much describe it? :-)
I did a summary a few years ago, which I *should* have put on the web page and did not. We need somebody to write it up, it has changed a lot.
ron