September 2001 - OpenBIOS - mail.coreboot.org

K7 Users and Sellers
by Ronald G Minnich Sept. 11, 2001

Sept. 11, 2001

Would those of you who are: 1) planning to sell linuxbios or other open source bios on K7 nodes 2) planning or hoping to buy linuxbios or other open source bios on K7 nodes Please write me directly (not the list). I am going to put a list of names together. AMD is trying to get an idea of who is interested in using or doing this work. This will help them make the case for releasing chipset details we need for porting. Please no sermons to the list or to me. I know it is obvious that they should do this. That's not the issue. I just need names of users/builders. thanks ron - To unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo(a)freiburg.linux.de with 'unsubscribe openbios' in the body of the message

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http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7026026.html?tag=mn_hd (fwd)
by Ronald G Minnich Sept. 4, 2001

Sept. 4, 2001

Stefan, reference the above URL, I think we should get in touch with those folks named in the article (at AMD and Intel) and let them know what we need, namely the information needed to write a BIOS. If they're serious maybe they'll actually open up the specs to us. Suse gets prominent play in the article so a note from suse might help too. ron - To unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo(a)freiburg.linux.de with 'unsubscribe openbios' in the body of the message

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[OT] Freebios
by Tobias Diedrich Sept. 1, 2001

Sept. 1, 2001

I don't know if anyone here is interested in this, but some time ago (1998) I started writing a pc-compatible bios for fun, but never finished it. So in case someone is interested in the little code I wrote you may find it at http://ranmachan.dyndns.org/~ranma/freebios-0.0.1.tar.gz (~67KB) ... [As long as my system is up, which should be nearly 24hours/day, and my internet connection and the dyndns.org dns updates are working...] I stopped because I had trouble figuring out how to enable SDRAM on my Pentium Mobo with Intel chipset... However for an older 486 Chipset there were specs in an old c't magazine, so I was able to boot into dos with this piece of code... (Don't know if it's still working, I did not try it recently... The floppy code is buggy IIRC... No HD support) Of course this probably doesn't help a bit with openbios development, but maybe someone will find it interesting to look at :-) GPL license, no reverse engineering of propriatary BIOSes was involved, I had to go with only a few books (Basically "PC Hardwarebook" and "PC Programmers Guide to low level Functions and Interrupts") -- Tobias PGP-Key: 0x9AC7E0BC - To unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo(a)freiburg.linux.de with 'unsubscribe openbios' in the body of the message

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