September 1999 - OpenBIOS - mail.coreboot.org

Re: [OpenBIOS] BIOS debug codes.
by Ross Sept. 28, 1999

Sept. 28, 1999

I am not a lawyer and do not give legal advice. I have a little back ground in law as well if you. I would suggest if you post this on the web as microsoft with the copywright and do not charge for this info there should not be any problem its just FYI as in all of the PCI spec etc. These have copywright on them there are portions all of these specs allo ver the web. thats my .02 cents. //Ross ---------- > From: M Carling <m(a)midgard.net> > To: openbios(a)elvis.informatik.uni-freiburg.de > Subject: Re: [OpenBIOS] BIOS debug codes. > Date: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 7:08 AM > > > Does anyone have any opinions on the legality aspect of posting this info? > > I am not a lawyer and do not give legal advice, however, I have lectured > at Stanford law school, and we might not have any lawyers on the list. > > I would feel comfortable posting it if there were not a Copyright notice > which applied in the jurisdiction in which I were typing. If there were > a Copyright notice and I really wanted to post it, I would write a review > of it, and quote from it for review purposes. > > M > > - > To unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo(a)freiburg.linux.de > with 'unsubscribe openbios' in the body of the message

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Re: [OpenBIOS] BIOS debug codes.
by M Carling Sept. 28, 1999

Sept. 28, 1999

> Does anyone have any opinions on the legality aspect of posting this info? I am not a lawyer and do not give legal advice, however, I have lectured at Stanford law school, and we might not have any lawyers on the list. I would feel comfortable posting it if there were not a Copyright notice which applied in the jurisdiction in which I were typing. If there were a Copyright notice and I really wanted to post it, I would write a review of it, and quote from it for review purposes. M - To unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo(a)freiburg.linux.de with 'unsubscribe openbios' in the body of the message

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openbios and via
by Jeff Garzik Sept. 28, 1999

Sept. 28, 1999

Is this list still alive? I don't see any links to mail archives, but the files in the latest source archive are about 10 months old. I might be using the OpenBIOS code in an embedded project. First I am going to play around with it on my home PC, where I already have the VIA 82Cxxx databook. Once I get that working, I'll probably add support for Intel PIIX4 chipsets, they look pretty easy. Can motherboard chipset coding be done in C? If not, what needs to be fixed before this can happen? Also, is www.openbios.org DNS down? I can't seem to complete a lookup, much less a web hit. Thanks, Jeff -- Custom driver development | Never worry about theory as long Open source programming | as the machinery does what it's | supposed to do. -- R. A. Heinlein - To unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo(a)freiburg.linux.de with 'unsubscribe openbios' in the body of the message

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Re: [OpenBIOS] Questions and comments
by Timothy J. Massey Sept. 17, 1999

Sept. 17, 1999

On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 13:00:35 -0700 (PDT), cj(a)accom.com wrote: >Anyone who wants to run a Real operating system and be able to use >DOS command line compilers should consider using FreeBSD rather than >Linux. FreeBSD can run DOS executables in VM86 mode much like OS/2 >and Windows, but without the instability. In Linux, your only option >is DOSemu (as Jeff mentioned) which emulates a PC in software, which runs >*way* slower. (This is not to say DOSemu is not a Really Good Thing, >but if you've got a x86, using vm86 mode is faster). I know this is not a Linux advocacy group, but... (Besides, I'm an OS/2 fan... ;) ) DOSemu *does* use vm86 mode, just *like* OS/2 and FreeBSD! I'm making no reference to speed, stability, etc., but it does *not* do emulation. Just wanted to straighten out your facts. Tim Massey - To unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo(a)freiburg.linux.de with 'unsubscribe openbios' in the body of the message

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Re: [OpenBIOS] Questions and comments
by cj＠accom.com Sept. 16, 1999

Sept. 16, 1999

Received From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik(a)pobox.com> > "Joseph D. Foley" wrote: > > More importantly, borland released (*free, for real*) TurboC to the web, > > which supports far pointers, among other things. > > And probably optimizes better too... But I'll have to run it under > DOSemu, as I don't want to install MS-DOS or FreeDOS. :) Anyone who wants to run a Real operating system and be able to use DOS command line compilers should consider using FreeBSD rather than Linux. FreeBSD can run DOS executables in VM86 mode much like OS/2 and Windows, but without the instability. In Linux, your only option is DOSemu (as Jeff mentioned) which emulates a PC in software, which runs *way* slower. (This is not to say DOSemu is not a Really Good Thing, but if you've got a x86, using vm86 mode is faster). - To unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo(a)freiburg.linux.de with 'unsubscribe openbios' in the body of the message

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BOUNCE openbios@freiburg.linux.de: Admin request: /^subject:\s*help\b/i
by owner-openbios＠elvis.informatik.uni-freiburg.de Sept. 11, 1999

Sept. 11, 1999

>From stepan(a)wesley.informatik.uni-freiburg.de Sat Sep 11 11:11:47 1999 Received: from avalon.informatik.uni-freiburg.de (root(a)avalon.informatik.uni-freiburg.de [132.230.150.1]) by wesley.informatik.uni-freiburg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA30414 for <openbios(a)elvis.informatik.uni-freiburg.de>; Sat, 11 Sep 1999 11:11:46 +0200 Received: from mailgateway1.uni-freiburg.de (mailgateway1.uni-freiburg.de [132.230.1.6]) by avalon.informatik.uni-freiburg.de (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id KAA13059 for <openbios(a)elvis.informatik.uni-freiburg.de>; Sat, 11 Sep 1999 10:53:24 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from dns.ele.uva.es [157.88.111.190] (root) by mailgateway1.uni-freiburg.de with esmtp (Exim 1.82 #3) id 11PiuR-00066k-00; Sat, 11 Sep 1999 10:53:23 +0200 Received: from wopr (jesus(a)wopr.ele.uva.es [157.88.111.53]) by dns.ele.uva.es (8.9.3/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA20250 for <openbios(a)freiburg.linux.de>; Sat, 11 Sep 1999 10:53:02 +0200 From: Jesus Arias <jesus(a)ele.uva.es> Reply-To: jesus(a)ele.uva.es To: openbios(a)elvis.informatik.uni-freiburg.de Subject: Help finding chipset info Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 08:33:28 +0000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 0.7.9] Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <99091108522700.00362@wopr> X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by dns.ele.uva.es id KAA20250 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by wesley.informatik.uni-freiburg.de id LAA30415 Hi, I've got an old 386 board that i think is well suited for some embedded apps. But the BIOS don't boot without keyboard or video card. Anyway, the 64 Kb of the BIOS are better intended for other use, so i'm planning to replace the BIOS chip to other with my application inside. The problem is the initialitation of the chipset. The only unknown chip is marked as "M1217", and it's the main chipset of the beast, so i'm searching some info about it, like Manufacturer, Datasheet, etc. Other motherboard chips are: (for ease of identification) CPU: AMD 386SX (33 MHz) NPU: IIT 387 Keyboard Controller: Intel/AMI CMOS: M5818 (same Manufacturer? 146818 clone?) BIOS: 27c512 (64Kb) AMI BIOS RAM: four 1Mb 30 pin SIMMs a few TTL/CMOS standart IC's. Any help is wellcome. Best regards ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jesús Arias Alvarez Dpto. de Electricidad y Electrónica. Univ. Valladolid. SPAIN E-mail: jesus(a)ele.uva.es Please don't send me Microsoft Virus^H^H^H^H^HWord documents ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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