Hello (again) from Gregg C Levine Perhaps. But NSC's webpage insists that they have indeed sold the entire line to AMD, and that presumably included software tools, and even development support. Meaning anyone who had bought a board the week before the event took place, would find themselves working with a different group. As for your claims, I don't know, I'm just commenting on the webpage. I can tell you, that it was badly laid out, and looked like something done by someone who was just starting out in that business, a far cry from all of the other things that they display online. Also, it did confirm what Brian brought our attention a while ago. ------------------- Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon@worldnet.att.net ------------------------------------------------------------ "The Force will be with you...Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi "Use the Force, Luke." Obi-Wan Kenobi (This company dedicates this E-Mail to General Obi-Wan Kenobi ) (This company dedicates this E-Mail to Master Yoda )
-----Original Message----- From: linuxbios-admin@clustermatic.org [mailto:linuxbios- admin@clustermatic.org] On Behalf Of Peter Stuge Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 9:09 PM To: linuxbios@clustermatic.org Subject: Re: NS Geode GX1 + CS5530 +PC 97317 superio
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 10:15:40PM +0530, amits@myrealbox.com wrote:
Hi ,
How do I extract the VGA BIOS from the Insyde ExpressROM??the same
way as
in
case of the EPIA will work? ANd in that case ... how can we find
out IF it
uses some calls that are implemented in the underlying XpressROM
BIOS ??
XpressROM is a minimalist BIOS sold by Insyde.
XpressLOADER is another name for the BLDT, available from either
Insyde or
NSC. (I believe it's still NSC.)
BLDT is the Boot Loader Development Toolkit and contains some
building
blocks for making a BIOS similar to the XpressROM but lacking a few
features
that may or may not be critical. ACPI and various legacy BIOS
services e.g.
The BLDT is (was) available free of charge and IIRC you're even
allowed to
develop open source software after reading it. Don't take my word
for this
though.
See if you can get hold of the BLDT, I think it'll make things a lot
easier
than dealing with XpressROM, especially when what you really want to
do is
run LinuxBIOS. :)
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