SIS chipset
Frank
frannk_m1 at yahoo.com
Wed Mar 17 17:25:00 CET 2004
Thanks for the response. So to the experts out there:
I want to add the SIS 630 based board support from freebios to
freebios2.
Is there a HOWTO I can reference to do this...
--- Nathanael Noblet <nathanael at gnat.ca> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, March 17, 2004, at 02:26 PM, Frank wrote:
>
> > I must be missing something here but in freebios v1 there is
> > plenty of supprt for the SIS chip sets. I downloaded
> freebios2
> > (thanks you everyone for the information) but I don't see
> any
> > support for the SIS chips. I thought freebios2 was a
> superset of
> > freebios1 and would therefore have all of the freebios
> support
> > plus some. it doesn't appear to be that way. Am I missing
> > something...
>
> Not superset, improved, rewritten port of freebios1. Freebios1
> had some
> limitations / weaknesses in that it was difficult to add a new
> board.
> Memory initialization was difficult and lots of the code was
> assembly,
> which speaking for myself isn't a skill many people excel at I
> would
> imagine.
>
> Freebios2 addresses some of the problems developers were
> having with
> freebios1. Although I am completely unfamiliar with the amd64
> stuff
> alot of what freebios2 does is facilitate that arch so the
> features and
> such could be added. New boards should be started on
> freebios2, any
> existing code from freebios1 can be brought into freebios2 I
> would
> imagine as it is needed. (You have to realize I am not a
> freebios
> developer) just trying to answer some of the questions I think
> I know
> the answers to so the developers can develop.
>
> --
> Nathanael D. Noblet
> Gnat Solutions
> 412 - 135 Gorge Road E
> Victoria, BC V9A 1L1
>
> T/F 250.385.4613
>
> http://www.gnat.ca/
>
__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam
http://mail.yahoo.com
More information about the coreboot
mailing list