I too feel that it would be good, if we have good documentation for the LInuxBIOS code. Atleast for the generic code like startup and bootstrap codes...
I too fighting with the linuxbios code for past one month, I feel that we can have group of people (who ever interested) and the start documentation for the code and the problem they faced while bring up the Linuxbios. It would be realy helpful for newbie.
As my contribution, I will start the documentation on the intial part of the Linuxbios code (i.e., Bootstrap code and the Ram initialization) Though the RAM initialization is not common for all the motherboard, I will try to list out the points need to taken care for RAM initialization.
Thanks Siva On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 18:37, John Allen wrote:
All, I have been working with LinuxBIOS on my Geode for several weeks now. I would first like to say, "I love it!". If does what it is intended to do very well. The only drawback I see is documentation. After watching the mailing lists for these past few weeks, I believe that most issues could be solved with some updated and decent docs. As a LinuxBIOS newbie, myself, I found trying to determine the correct option flags nearly impossible. It would be great to at least have something that described what each option did. For example, BOOT_IDE, BOOT_TFTP, USE_ELF_BOOT, USE_GENERIC_ROM, and others could be grouped together to decribe where LinuxBIOS gets the kernel image.
I would be willing to help get the docs inorder, but as a relative newbie to LinuxBIOS, I probably know only a handful of options anyway. Any Thoughts? John
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