Hi all
Maybe I missed it, but for the Open BIOS that is
being discussed, is there a specific single board computer (SBC), motherboard,
chipset (or ?) that the BIOS will be targeted on.
My understanding is that this will be an x86
board, and it sounds like it will be at least partly targeted toward the game
industry. However, since my favorite language is actually solder, I am mostly
curious. There are a lot of chipset options out there, and each one of
these may have a different effect on the workings and architecture of the
BIOS.
If this has not been discussed, you all may want to
do so.
Incidentally, I would also recommend that you start
with a monitor level input / output / short command structure. It really makes
it easier to test code and eliminate problems when you have a basic
(NOT BASIC) set of commands that you can use to look at or change control
registers and memory locations.
On new hardware projects, I also like to either get
a serial port working first thing, or will hook up a small ASCII LCD panel to
the system. That way I can see what is going on inside by using simple print
statements, and can check to see that variables are what I expect, and that
certain stages of the software are being executed.
Later
"If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be
called research, would it" Albert Einstein