BIOS

[Johan Rydberg]

Hi!

I have written a BIOS for the STPC platform. Right now I'm
discussing with my project leader if I could release it under
GPL, if you all are intressted ?

The BIOS can boot NetBSD kernels (loaded from FFS-filesystem
on a IDE disk)

[Mircea Ciocan]

I'm iterested for sure, for what chipset is, or is generic ???
Hope that your boss will let you do it.

Mircea C.

Johan Rydberg wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have written a BIOS for the STPC platform. Right now I'm
> discussing with my project leader if I could release it under
> GPL, if you all are intressted ?
>
> The BIOS can boot NetBSD kernels (loaded from FFS-filesystem
> on a IDE disk)

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[Johan Rydberg]

Mircea Ciocan wrote:
>     I'm iterested for sure, for what chipset is, or is generic ???
>
> Hope that your boss will let you do it.

It's for the STPC chipset (Client, Consumer and Industrial).

[Corvin Zahn]

Hi,

I'm very interested too. We have a project with the STPC industrial, the
hardware will be finished the next weeks. Is it difficult to boot Linux
with your BIOS?

Do you have any kind of support for the internal graphic controller? It
seems very difficult to get a working VGA BIOS from ST. The VGA VIOS
should be written by a company named elpin. They are announcing their
product (which will be binary only :( ) since about a year but nothing
happens.

Best regards,
Corvin

On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Johan Rydberg wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have written a BIOS for the STPC platform. Right now I'm
> discussing with my project leader if I could release it under
> GPL, if you all are intressted ?
>
> The BIOS can boot NetBSD kernels (loaded from FFS-filesystem
> on a IDE disk)

[Thierry Deval]

Hello,

On 08-Jan-00 Corvin Zahn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm very interested too. We have a project with the STPC industrial, the
> hardware will be finished the next weeks. Is it difficult to boot Linux
> with your BIOS?
>
> Do you have any kind of support for the internal graphic controller? It
> seems very difficult to get a working VGA BIOS from ST. The VGA VIOS
> should be written by a company named elpin. They are announcing their
> product (which will be binary only :( ) since about a year but nothing
> happens.
>
> Best regards,
> Corvin
> ...

Are you talking about VGABIOS-elpin-2.20 which was included with the Bochs PC
emulator ?
I can send it to you (it's only 32k).

Thierry
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[Corvin Zahn]

On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Thierry Deval wrote:
> > Do you have any kind of support for the internal graphic controller? It
> > seems very difficult to get a working VGA BIOS from ST. The VGA VIOS
> > should be written by a company named elpin. They are announcing their
> > product (which will be binary only :( ) since about a year but nothing
> > happens.
>
> Are you talking about VGABIOS-elpin-2.20 which was included with the Bochs PC
> emulator ?
> I can send it to you (it's only 32k).

Is this BIOS for the STPC industrial (with flat panel support)?
The only BIOS, I know is the one on the ST web page for the STPC client
(gbios100.zip). In December ST told me, the STPC industrial VGA BIOS is
not yet finished. But if you have a working version, I would appreciate to
get it.

Thanks,
Corvin

[Thierry Deval]

On 08-Jan-00 Corvin Zahn wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Thierry Deval wrote:
> > > Do you have any kind of support for the internal graphic controller? It
> > > seems very difficult to get a working VGA BIOS from ST. The VGA VIOS
> > > should be written by a company named elpin. They are announcing their
> > > product (which will be binary only :( ) since about a year but nothing
> > > happens.
> >
> > Are you talking about VGABIOS-elpin-2.20 which was included with the Bochs
> > PC
> > emulator ?
> > I can send it to you (it's only 32k).
>
> Is this BIOS for the STPC industrial (with flat panel support)?
> The only BIOS, I know is the one on the ST web page for the STPC client
> (gbios100.zip). In December ST told me, the STPC industrial VGA BIOS is
> not yet finished. But if you have a working version, I would appreciate to
> get it.

I don't think it is specific to the STPC, because it was the VGABIOS included
with BOCHS to drive their VGA emulation. I don't know if it would be compatible
with Flat Panel displays.

However, this BIOS was developed by Elpin, not specifically for BOCHS...

I'll post it to you, for you to test it.

Thierry
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[Johan Rydberg]

Corvin Zahn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm very interested too. We have a project with the STPC industrial, the
> hardware will be finished the next weeks. Is it difficult to boot Linux
> with your BIOS?

I guess not. But you have to write code that can read files from an ext2
filesystem then.
> Do you have any kind of support for the internal graphic controller? It
> seems very difficult to get a working VGA BIOS from ST. The VGA VIOS
> should be written by a company named elpin. They are announcing their
> product (which will be binary only :( ) since about a year but nothing
> happens.

No, I'm using the serial line as console.