[LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS wiki entry on Products page for Artec DBE61
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGVsOteXr56x4Muc0RAnL9AJ4h4wEQ0GZSI4cRyzCXpkBijXzi8gCgjq0t xsGy3YbTdLUD0WsUgK89jL8= =5PZ3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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. -- http://www.hermann-uwe.de | http://www.holsham-traders.de http://www.crazy-hacks.org | http://www.unmaintained-free-software.org
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. -- Martin-Éric Racine Business Development Manager Artec Group OÜ
* Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de> [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 -- coresystems GmbH • Brahmsstr. 16 • D-79104 Freiburg i. Br. Tel.: +49 761 7668825 • Fax: +49 761 7664613 Email: info@coresystems.de • http://www.coresystems.de/
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