[LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS wiki entry on Products page for Artec DBE61

[Martin-Éric Racine]

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Greetings,

I would just like to point out that Artec Design is a daughter company
of Artec Group, thus the wiki entry for our DBE61 should read:

"Artec Group [www.artecgroup.com] runs LinuxBIOS on their Geode LX
- -based DBE61 ThinCan [www.thincan.com] system."

On another wiki entry, please note that Linutop is NOT shipping with
LinuxBIOS. It currently runs on a commercial BIOS. This shall be
remedied once USB booting support on LinuxBIOS has stabilized.

Disclaimer: we are manufacturing the hardware for Linutop SARL.

Best Regards,
- --
Martin-Éric Racine
Business Development Manager
Artec Group OÜ
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[LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS wiki entry on Products page for Artec DBE61

[Uwe Hermann]

Hi,

On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 02:08:30PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> I would just like to point out that Artec Design is a daughter company
> of Artec Group, thus the wiki entry for our DBE61 should read:
>
> "Artec Group [www.artecgroup.com] runs LinuxBIOS on their Geode LX
> -based DBE61 ThinCan [www.thincan.com] system."

Fixed, thanks.
> On another wiki entry, please note that Linutop is NOT shipping with
> LinuxBIOS. It currently runs on a commercial BIOS. This shall be
> remedied once USB booting support on LinuxBIOS has stabilized.

Hm, then the Linutop wiki is wrong:

http://www.linutop.com/wiki/index.php/Developers#Upgrading_to_LinuxBIOS

"Standard Linutop units already come with LinuxBIOS pre-installed."

What wording should we use in our wiki instead? Suggestions?

Feel free to use this list for discussing the USB booting issues, I'm pretty
sure someone is willing and able to help. And/or send patches. Patches
are always welcome :-)

Cheers, Uwe.

[LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS wiki entry on Products page for Artec DBE61

[Martin-Éric Racine]

Uwe Hermann kirjoitti:
> On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 02:08:30PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> > I would just like to point out that Artec Design is a daughter company
> > of Artec Group, thus the wiki entry for our DBE61 should read:
> >
> > "Artec Group [www.artecgroup.com] runs LinuxBIOS on their Geode LX
> > -based DBE61 ThinCan [www.thincan.com] system."
>
> Fixed, thanks.

Thanks for fixing this.

In passing, I would also mention that LinuxBIOS is only used for booting
our recent Geode LX product (DBE61).  Unfortunately, our previous Geode
SC2200 product uses a custom bootloader instead. Luckily, I notice that
LinuxBIOS has a tree for older Geode products, so booting the old DBE60
from LinuxBIOS should be possible as well.  If anyone is interested in
trying this, we still have a few hundred units of DBE60 left in stock.
> > On another wiki entry, please note that Linutop is NOT shipping with
> > LinuxBIOS. It currently runs on a commercial BIOS. This shall be
> > remedied once USB booting support on LinuxBIOS has stabilized.
>
> Hm, then the Linutop wiki is wrong:
>
> http://www.linutop.com/wiki/index.php/Developers#Upgrading_to_LinuxBIOS
>
> "Standard Linutop units already come with LinuxBIOS pre-installed."

That was indeed the goal for Linutop booting and my understanding is
that LinuxBIOS developer Stefan Reinauer has a sample unit on hand
towards finalizing the USB support in FILO.
> What wording should we use in our wiki instead? Suggestions?

Good question.  Something to the effect that LinuxBIOS will soon replace
the commercial BIOS currently being used, making the Linutop a very rare
platform running on Free Software from head to toes?
> Feel free to use this list for discussing the USB booting issues, I'm pretty
> sure someone is willing and able to help. And/or send patches. Patches
> are always welcome :-)

If anyone is willing to help Stefan improve USB boot support in FILO,
this would be most welcome and would certainly benefit a lot of other
hardware projects as well, not just our ThinCan product line.

[LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS wiki entry on Products page for Artec DBE61

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Uwe Hermann  [070525 15:01]:
> Hm, then the Linutop wiki is wrong:
>
> http://www.linutop.com/wiki/index.php/Developers#Upgrading_to_LinuxBIOS
>
> "Standard Linutop units already come with LinuxBIOS pre-installed."
>
> What wording should we use in our wiki instead? Suggestions?

I have two units, one boots from NAND flash with LinuxBIOS, and one
boots from USB with General BIOS.

It will be fixed to use USB with LinuxBIOS. FILO is broken in that
regard. The easiest way to fix the Linutop wiki is to fix USB booting on
FILO.
> Feel free to use this list for discussing the USB booting issues, I'm pretty
> sure someone is willing and able to help. And/or send patches. Patches
> are always welcome :-)

Will do so ASAP.

Stefan