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
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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
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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
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