12 Jan
1999
12 Jan
'99
9:36 a.m.
Erin R. Kern wrote:
The tables for all of the chipsets that you want to support would fill any BIOS EEPROM on the market and you haven't even written one line of code yet.
The objective is not to write OpenBIOS such that (in practice) a single compiled image can boot any chipset. Rather, the autodetect objective is that a set of chipsets may be chosen at compile time from which the image is about to boot. Thus, for example, a MB manufacturer could compile a BIOS such that one image would work for all the MBs that they manufacture.
Do you think this has any merit, Eric?
M