Hi,
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 11:31:23PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
- Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net [060829 23:06]:
Yes, he is. This has the potential to get quite a lot of people started and getting any output at all is a major motivation factor even if the rest of the code for bringup has yet to be written.
That's a great idea! I figure it should be possible to create a repository of some sort which contains such ROM images. That eliminates the need to understand the build process and compile stuff, which will lower the entry bar for a few people and might get them interested in the project.
Definitely. Uwe, can you (or someone else) have a look what SuperIOs boards usually use, so we can try to support an as large as possible set of boards theoretically. (thinking mainstream)
Yes, that shouldn't be a problem for recent boards. We can just scan all major online computer stores for board names and then get the datasheets of the vendors; or simply visit the websites of the 10 biggest vendors or so and simply get _all_ their datasheets. Then we can do some statistics etc.
As for the Super IOs I'd use another approach; simply download all datasheets you can get your hands on and add support for the respective part (which is what I'm doing with the ITEs; when Im done I'll probably continue with Winbond).
Uwe.