* Al Boldi a1426z@gawab.com [070309 14:25]:
Are the datasheets enough to get the board supported by LinuxBIOS?
If so, which board has been supported by only relying on the datasheets?
This depends on the data sheets. The AMD64 (AMD8111/AMD8131) port has completely been developed from publicly available data sheets (including the publically available bios and kernel developers guide).
Very often, there are no publically available data sheets, or the publically available versions are censored and do not contain the required information to write a BIOS/Firmware. This is the case for basically all modern Intel chipsets.
Also, the factory bios contains a lot of ram timing info; can't this be used to get a generic/blind LinuxBIOS to init ram, and then payload from flash?
The ram timing info is stored on the RAM modules themselfes, in a small chip called SPD-ROM (Serial Presence Detect). The BIOS has to look at each single RAM module and find out a common denominator that works with all modules used in the system.
Stefan