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
James wrote:
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.
will the your code be available, if so, where and when?
Thanks in advance, good luck,
-- Marcel Wijlaars (+31) 40 2472834 Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, section Materials Technology Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513 NL-5600 MB Eindhoven The Netherlands
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As soon as we get it working, it will be available :) Right now we are working with OpenBIOS 0.0.1 - James
will the your code be available, if so, where and when?
Thanks in advance, good luck,
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On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 04:26:00PM -0800, James wrote:
As soon as we get it working, it will be available :) Right now we are working with OpenBIOS 0.0.1
What about http://www.freiburg.linux.de/openbios/bin/OpenBIOS-0.0.2pre1.tar.gz ?
Regards, Daniele
OK. So far we can load the OpenBIOS code into memory (under DOS) and then jump to it. We uncompress the kernel to 0x100000 and then jump to it. It starts to load and gets pretty far, but it tries to read information out of the BIOS and (surprise, surprise) fails. It fails on the "Check Halt" and the "Calibrating Delay Loop". Interrupts don't work (I think). That is bad.
We're getting there. We need to put information that Linux will grab out of the BIOS where Linux expects it (why is Linux grabing stuff out of the BIOS?). Etc. I'll post when we get closer.
- James
On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Marcel Wijlaars wrote:
James wrote:
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.
will the your code be available, if so, where and when?
Thanks in advance, good luck,
-- Marcel Wijlaars (+31) 40 2472834 Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, section Materials Technology Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513 NL-5600 MB Eindhoven The Netherlands
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