Dear all,
I am wondering if it would be possible to run LinuxBios on a braille device. Regarded from a Linux point of view, such a device is very similar to a PC or a laptop, as you will certainly notice according to the datas provided below. If the device is supported, the idea would be to install a screen-reader (like brltty) in the BIOS, which would help when there is a problem while booting the operating system's kernel.
So below are the outputs of lspci -n, lspci -v and lspci -t run on the terminal. Could someone please tell me whether there is a possibility or not to install LinuxBios on such a machine ?
Thanks a lot in advance for your help, Sébastien.
# lspci -n 00:00.0 0600: 1078:0001 00:02.0 0200: 1282:9102 (rev 40) 00:12.0 0601: 1078:0100 (rev 30) 00:12.1 0680: 1078:0101 00:12.2 0101: 1078:0102 00:12.3 0401: 1078:0103 00:12.4 0300: 1078:0104 00:13.0 0c03: 0e11:a0f8 (rev 06)
# lspci -v 00:00.0 Host bridge: Cyrix Corporation PCI Master Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
00:02.0 Ethernet controller: Davicom Semiconductor, Inc. 21x4x DEC-Tulip compatible 10/100 Ethernet (rev 40) Subsystem: Davicom Semiconductor, Inc. Unknown device 8212 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 165, IRQ 11 I/O ports at 1000 [size=256] Memory at fedfe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] [virtual] Expansion ROM at 10000000 [disabled] [size=256K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
00:12.0 ISA bridge: Cyrix Corporation 5530 Legacy [Kahlua] (rev 30) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
00:12.1 Bridge: Cyrix Corporation 5530 SMI [Kahlua] Flags: medium devsel Memory at 40012000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
00:12.2 IDE interface: Cyrix Corporation 5530 IDE [Kahlua] (prog-if 80 [Master]) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 I/O ports at 1400 [size=16]
00:12.3 Multimedia audio controller: Cyrix Corporation 5530 Audio [Kahlua] Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 Memory at 40011000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128]
00:12.4 VGA compatible controller: Cyrix Corporation 5530 Video [Kahlua] (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Cyrix Corporation Unknown device 0001 Flags: medium devsel Memory at 40800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M]
00:13.0 USB Controller: Compaq Computer Corporation ZFMicro Chipset USB (rev 06) (prog-if 10 [OHCI]) Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation ZFMicro Chipset USB Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9 Memory at 000e0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
# lspci -t -[0000:00]-+-00.0 +-02.0 +-12.0 +-12.1 +-12.2 +-12.3 +-12.4 -13.0