Thats a great idea man.
I'm also an OpenBIOS 'newbie' (although not new to writing bring-up firmware on other platforms), and am interested in getting involved.
One question.. I seem to have noticed that there doesnt appear to be a lot of chipset specific code in CVS (or perhaps i'm just missing it somewhere). I read in the x86/entry.S that the cpu is expected to be in protected mode with flat memory setup already. Does this mean that theres a 'missing link' that needs to be done to get the chipsets up and memory initialized? Or is it just somewhere else that I've missed?.
Thanks
-San
Douglas Frank wrote:
On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 09:46 -0600, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
I like the idea.
We really need this capability.
Man! You mean after ALL THESE YEARS, I finally thought of something useful? ...wait, I gotta put my teeth back in... there that's better.
OK, I'd like some help then, a mentor maybe, to direct my studies in getting up to speed. Feel free to reply off-list: what's the best way to start? If I need to read 3.8MB of source, which are the important parts?