On 22.10.2007 21:36, Peter Lemenkov wrote:
2007/10/22, ron minnich rminnich@gmail.com:
On 10/21/07, Peter Lemenkov lemenkov@gmail.com wrote:
Hello All! Does anybody tried to use linuxbios and LB-tools on non-x86 platforms? There are some issues we need to fir even for compilation (not for successful usage).
One thing I found so far is excessive usage of non-portable inb/outb macros. For instance - inb may be emulated as folliwing:
because superio is not performance-critical, I would recommend we move to that usage for all cases. It would make the tool completely portable.
I'll try to create more suitable solutuion (with #ifdef/#else/#endifs).
OK, but be prepared that the solution has to be somewhat clean.
But I need an advice - I found ppc970 branch of LinuxBIOS - who maintains it and what's the current status of that port? Does anyone successfully boots any non-x86 machine using LinuxBIOS?
interest in ppc970 ended with the Apple changeover.
But users still got huge amount of old-skool powerpc hardware :) I think it would be more funny to make something valuable with powerpc-machines instead if simply getting rid of them.
A patch will not be merged if it does not work better than the current situation. If flashrom really works in practice on a non-x86 platform, we might merge the patch.
Regards, Carl-Daniel