SIS chipset

ron minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Wed Mar 17 18:55:00 CET 2004


On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Frank wrote:

> Then what is the structure. I have to know this before I port a board
> over. Is there a target I can use as a model. U-BOOT was quite easy to
> extend and add additional boards. I would just pick an exsisting board
> that was similar to mine and have a working port in about 3 days. I have
> a very bad feeling I won't be able to do this as quickly with freebios2
> from freebios...

it's a little harder, as there is learning curve. 

But I just added the ibm e325 in a few minutes. The epia took me longer as 
i rewrote the startup. 

In summary, if there is chipset support in linuxbios, you can do a new 
platform in a few minutes. With no chipset support it takes longer. 

ron




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