gram wilson wrote:
I just came across this project at SourceForge:
Talkware TIARA, an Openbios/GRUB/PFORTH composite, BIOS replacement. Boots an unmodifed linux kernel from an IDE drive or ethernet, using only 128kb of flash. Works with INTEL/AMD K6/2-450, SiS 530/5595 and 8139 enet. VGA & Serial console supported.and was wondering if anybody had heard of it?
It got me thinking that maybe all of the free bios developers (this project, freebios, openbios, linuxbios) should get together and collaborate on features. This way there would be more developers, which could mean accelerated development, better features, and more testing.
Also, I would like to thank all of the people who work on these projects now, because a free/open source bios is something we all really need.
Hi!
linuxbios is now working out of FreeBIOS cvs. I started FreeBIOS mainly because of the lack of updates from the OpenBIOS project. I agree we should all get together and merge features. Note that we not only need a common codebase, but a very flexible one as well. linuxbios seeks to be just enough to boot the Linux kernel, without needing to initialize much more than the DRAM and mobo chipset. Tiara and OpenBIOS seek to be much larger BIOSen.
Jeff