Hi Guylhem,
I'm CC'ing the coreboot mailing list as they seem to know a bit about OLPC and I know very little.
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 12:01:21PM -0400, Guylhem Aznar wrote:
Hello
I saw you where porting Boch bios to Gcc, and you had an active repository on http://git.linuxtogo.org/?p=kevin/legacybios.git
What is the status ? It seems very active. Is it in alpha state ?
It's active now, but I am still pretty much the only code contributor. (Though, I welcome any additional contributors.) There has been a name change - I now call it "SeaBIOS".
I'd say it is in a near release state for use with emulators (qemu or bochs).
It's in an early beta stage for use on real hardware (with coreboot). I am able to boot my via epia-m with coreboot+seabios and run freedos.
I would like to know in order to try to run Freedos on the OLPC (www.laptop.org) for some legacy applications that could be usefull for children in Brasil.
I have an OLPC, and I can do some C, so I may give a hand if you could point me to documentation. If Freedos could somehow work reliably enough, I would be happy to test and package it for the OLPC.
I'm not sure if you're looking to run natively or via an emulator. If you're looking to run natively then I imagine it may require some effort to get it up and running. If you're looking to run via an emulator, then it should just work.
Hope this helps, -Kevin
Thanks Guylhem
-- Dr Guylhem Aznar, MD PhD