Hi Yinghai,
Finally got some more time to play with LB.
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 03:36:01PM -0700, yhlu wrote:
you may need to reconfig your eth0. because the MAC address or pci device id change.
You're quite right. The mac address changes when switching to LinuxBIOS.
Why exactly is this? Is there a way to avoid it? Ideally, I'd like LinuxBIOS to be a drop-in replacement for the proprietary BIOS, with as few system configuration changes required as possible.
acpi support may need dsdt..., and that copyright doesn't belong to Nvidia ...
So - what needs to happen to get ACPI support, and how can we make that happen?
I assume that some code changes are needed first of all - and then negotiations with the mainboard vendors to acquire any required dsdt's? Or can we extract those from a running proprietary bios somehow?
we may need one cleaning room implementation...
Can you please elaborate a bit on what would be necessary? Maybe this could be a summer of code project?
Thanks for all your help! Ward.