Uwe Hermann kirjoitti:
On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 02:08:30PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
I would just like to point out that Artec Design is a daughter company of Artec Group, thus the wiki entry for our DBE61 should read:
"Artec Group [www.artecgroup.com] runs LinuxBIOS on their Geode LX
- -based DBE61 ThinCan [www.thincan.com] system."
Fixed, thanks.
Thanks for fixing this.
In passing, I would also mention that LinuxBIOS is only used for booting our recent Geode LX product (DBE61). Unfortunately, our previous Geode SC2200 product uses a custom bootloader instead. Luckily, I notice that LinuxBIOS has a tree for older Geode products, so booting the old DBE60 from LinuxBIOS should be possible as well. If anyone is interested in trying this, we still have a few hundred units of DBE60 left in stock.
On another wiki entry, please note that Linutop is NOT shipping with LinuxBIOS. It currently runs on a commercial BIOS. This shall be remedied once USB booting support on LinuxBIOS has stabilized.
Hm, then the Linutop wiki is wrong:
http://www.linutop.com/wiki/index.php/Developers#Upgrading_to_LinuxBIOS
"Standard Linutop units already come with LinuxBIOS pre-installed."
That was indeed the goal for Linutop booting and my understanding is that LinuxBIOS developer Stefan Reinauer has a sample unit on hand towards finalizing the USB support in FILO.
What wording should we use in our wiki instead? Suggestions?
Good question. Something to the effect that LinuxBIOS will soon replace the commercial BIOS currently being used, making the Linutop a very rare platform running on Free Software from head to toes?
Feel free to use this list for discussing the USB booting issues, I'm pretty sure someone is willing and able to help. And/or send patches. Patches are always welcome :-)
If anyone is willing to help Stefan improve USB boot support in FILO, this would be most welcome and would certainly benefit a lot of other hardware projects as well, not just our ThinCan product line.