RE: [OpenBIOS] Hello

[Wim Vervoorn]

James,

Usually you will need to contact Intel to obtain a good BIOS writers guide 
for their current chipsets.

The best way to recover from a "Bad BIOS" is to use the bootblock that 
most systems have to contain a very minimal "BIOS" than will allow you to 
flash the remainder of the BIOS. In normal cases you should not change this 
part of the BIOS.

Best regards,

Wim Vervoorn

-----Original Message-----
From:	James [SMTP:[e-mail]]
Sent:	Wednesday, January 05, 2000 12:20 AM
To:	[e-mail]
Subject:	[OpenBIOS] Hello

Hi everyone.  Looks like there are just a few people working on the
project?  Anyway, we're working on an open source BIOS at the Advanced
Computing Lab of Los Alamos National Lab in Los Alamos, NM (USA,
http://www.acl.lanl.gov) for our Linux clusters.  We have Linux booting
from Linux and a few other things like that, and you seem to have started
the project from the other end.  As several of our workers are students
(including me), most of our work will be over this summer.

Does anyone know where good "BIOS Writers' Guides" are?  I know that Intel
used to have these, but I can't find them now.  In particular I am looking
for some way to write a BIOS for a 440GX.  Also, has anyone figured a way
to recover or prevent bad BIOS flashes (using something like a BIOS
emulator)?  It would be nice if there were an easy way to make sure that
the BIOS we write will work.

Thanks a lot, and I hope to be hearing from you.

James Hendricks
        University of California, Berkeley
        Advanced Computing Lab, LANL

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