Re: Greetings

[Hendricks David W.]

Welcome! Did you have anything specific in mind? A specific mainboard 
that you want to work on, perhaps?

On Fri, 28 May 2004 [e-mail] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm new to: This List, and Linux in general.
>
> Why I joined: I have a keen interest in both Linux and BIOSs, and may be able to provide some help on the BIOS and hardware end of things.
>
> Some about me: I work for a company that provides "aftermarket" Award BIOSs, built from source provided to us through an agreement with Award themselves. I'm a semi-recent graduate of Electrical Engineering, and live in Massachusetts. I actually concentrated in embedded systems design, but I ended up here, configuring BIOSs, and working on the company website, go figure :)
>
> I thought I might be able to provide some help on the hardware side of things, having a lot of insight into the BIOS. Obviously I can't share the source code we have, or violate any of the agreements my company has though.
>
> This list seems fairly busy, from the few mails I've already received today since I signed up.
>
> -Jesse
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Greetings

[backblue]

Hi,

I'm interested in developing linuxbios for the mainboards i have, but i dont find any kind of help, any where, can you help me?

On Fri, 28 May 2004 10:52:55 -0600 (MDT)
"Hendricks David W."  wrote:
> Welcome! Did you have anything specific in mind? A specific mainboard 
> that you want to work on, perhaps?
>
> On Fri, 28 May 2004 [e-mail] wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm new to: This List, and Linux in general.
> >
> > Why I joined: I have a keen interest in both Linux and BIOSs, and may be able to provide some help on the BIOS and hardware end of things.
> >
> > Some about me: I work for a company that provides "aftermarket" Award BIOSs, built from source provided to us through an agreement with Award themselves. I'm a semi-recent graduate of Electrical Engineering, and live in Massachusetts. I actually concentrated in embedded systems design, but I ended up here, configuring BIOSs, and working on the company website, go figure :)
> >
> > I thought I might be able to provide some help on the hardware side of things, having a lot of insight into the BIOS. Obviously I can't share the source code we have, or violate any of the agreements my company has though.
> >
> > This list seems fairly busy, from the few mails I've already received today since I signed up.
> >
> > -Jesse
> > _______________________________________________
> > Linuxbios mailing list
> > [e-mail]
> > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
>
> Linuxbios mailing list
> [e-mail]
> http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Greetings

backblue  writes:
> Hi,
>
> I'm interested in developing linuxbios for the mainboards i have, but i dont
> find any kind of help, any where, can you help me?

We can obviously try.  Who knows if we will succeed.  The code
is available and we have done many ports previously. So...

Eric

Greetings

[Stefan Reinauer]

* backblue  [040527 20:10]:
> Hi,
>
> I'm interested in developing linuxbios for the mainboards i have, but
> i dont find any kind of help, any where, can you help me?

Where have you been looking? Did you see below document?

http://www.openbios.org/LinuxBIOS-AMD64.pdf

It gives some insight on non-AMD64 systems as well (and should be
enhanced to be a generic LinuxBIOS document)

Besides, you need data sheets for your motherboard's components, if they
are not supported already. Check the source whether a component is
supported or not (northbridge, southbridge, superio)

Also, there is a whole lot of information stored in the LinuxBIOS
mailinglist archive which is no doubt a good reading.

Stefan