hi, I'm new for LinuxBIOS. I have problem about my mainboard(VIA-EPIA) Now I'm use LinuxBIOS but I want to customized it to chang payload from etherboot with my program about serial port(now this mainboard use serial console) how can I'change it(my program use assembly). Thank you for answer
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On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 08:39:44PM -0800, Parit Wattanasin wrote:
hi, I'm new for LinuxBIOS. I have problem about my mainboard(VIA-EPIA) Now I'm use LinuxBIOS but I want to customized it to chang payload from etherboot with my program about serial port(now this mainboard use serial console) how can I'change it(my program use assembly). Thank you for answer
The payload can be exchanged from Etherboot to another self-contained ELF file simply by recompiling LinuxBIOS.
I'm not quite sure about the status of the EPIA port in the version 2 CVS tree, but it's there and there's been work put into it so it should probably compile and work just fine.
The best bet is to check the mailing list archives for information, and then grab the CVS code, or a snapshot, and make your own build.
While making your own build you can also take out all serial port activity not needed for your application, of course.
//Peter
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003, Peter Stuge wrote:
I'm not quite sure about the status of the EPIA port in the version 2 CVS tree, but it's there and there's been work put into it so it should probably compile and work just fine.
EPIA is fine in V2, not perfect but FAR better than EPIA in v1.
We want to clean up EPIA completely, then fix up EPIA-M, but there have been some distractions (SC '03).
ron
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 10:52:20PM -0700, ron minnich wrote:
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003, Peter Stuge wrote:
I'm not quite sure about the status of the EPIA port in the version 2 CVS tree, but it's there and there's been work put into it so it should probably compile and work just fine.
EPIA is fine in V2, not perfect but FAR better than EPIA in v1.
We want to clean up EPIA completely, then fix up EPIA-M, but there have been some distractions (SC '03).
Ah, yes, that's right.
I can't wait until I actually have the time to sit down and do something with LinuxBIOS, last time was over two years ago, there's been an amazing evolution of the code. I can easily imagine running LinuxBIOS 3 or 4 on _MANY_ systems in another year or two. It seems vendors (like Tyan) are picking up too, which is great. Just don't take over all of their competent people over at LANL, at least not until there's support for all of their boards in the tree.. >:)
Just a short note to celebrate your success. :)
//Peter
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