[LinuxBIOS] article

[Ward Vandewege]

Someone forwarded me this link:

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/mainboards/display/20070223145912.html

which is referring to this post to the Linux Kernel mailing list, dated
today:

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/496453

The article fails to mention that the BIOS chip is soldered onto the Gigabyte
board - we're going to have to warn people about that.

Can someone clarify which parts of YH's big patch are still missing to make
the MCP55 code build?

We have 2 Gigabyte boards, and I've ordered some PLCC sockets that should
arrive early next week. Really looking forward to seeing this thing boot
LinuxBIOS!

Thanks,
Ward.

[yhlu]

You can try the tar ball I sent to list. Only difference is replace
ROM_STRAM to PAYLOAD sth.

YH

On 2/23/07, Ward Vandewege  wrote:
> Someone forwarded me this link:
>
> http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/mainboards/display/20070223145912.html
>
> which is referring to this post to the Linux Kernel mailing list, dated
> today:
>
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/496453
>
> The article fails to mention that the BIOS chip is soldered onto the Gigabyte
> board - we're going to have to warn people about that.
>
> Can someone clarify which parts of YH's big patch are still missing to make
> the MCP55 code build?
>
> We have 2 Gigabyte boards, and I've ordered some PLCC sockets that should
> arrive early next week. Really looking forward to seeing this thing boot
> LinuxBIOS!
>
> Thanks,
> Ward.

[Uwe Hermann]

Hi Ward,

On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 11:36:52PM -0500, Ward Vandewege wrote:
> Someone forwarded me this link:
>
> http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/mainboards/display/20070223145912.html
>
> which is referring to this post to the Linux Kernel mailing list, dated
> today:
>
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/496453

Thanks, added to the wiki. This LKML post has created lots of press,
I'll add more articles to the wiki later...

It was a bit early, though, as we don't really have the code ready in svn
yet ;-)
> The article fails to mention that the BIOS chip is soldered onto the Gigabyte
> board - we're going to have to warn people about that.

Yeah, that will prevent many people from actually using LinuxBIOS on
that board, I'm afraid.

Yinghai, did you solder off the chip for developing/debugging or did you
have another way to (re)flash the board in case of errors? Or is there a
variant of the board with a BIOS chip which is not soldered on?
> Can someone clarify which parts of YH's big patch are still missing to make
> the MCP55 code build?

Two patches are missing:

- http://www.openbios.org/pipermail/linuxbios/2007-February/018398.html
   This just needs one more Ack from someone so it can be committed.
   The code should work just fine.

- http://www.openbios.org/pipermail/linuxbios/2007-February/018379.html
   This one needs more work, I think, as it contains left-over cruft
   from older revisions. Also, it's missing license headers.

Uwe.

[Simon Kellett]

Ward Vandewege  writes:
> Someone forwarded me this link:
>
> http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/mainboards/display/20070223145912.html

There is a similar, but shorter, article dated 22/2 in German:

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/result.xhtml?url=/newsticker/meldung/85705&am...

[Uwe Hermann]

On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 08:44:43PM +0100, Simon Kellett wrote:
> Ward Vandewege  writes:
> > Someone forwarded me this link:
> >
> > http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/mainboards/display/20070223145912.html
>
> There is a similar, but shorter, article dated 22/2 in German:
>
> http://www.heise.de/newsticker/result.xhtml?url=/newsticker/meldung/85705&am...

Added to the wiki, thanks.

Uwe.