[LinuxBIOS] Improvements to "Supported Motherboards" wiki page.
Segher Boessenkool
segher at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Oct 26 22:22:37 CEST 2006
> Yes, we should get rid of 90% of the motherboard specific code and
> instead pack things into config files ;-) modularize as much as
> possible
> and autogenerate the rest.
Amen.
> in v3 we should get the failsafe and auto.c moved to generic code
> completely...
Unfortunately, in the failsafe part in the ROM, some things
_have_ to be hardcoded, even if you _could_ auto-detect them,
simply because auto detect is not "fail-safe" enough.
It should only be the bare minimum required to a) get console
output; and b) reflash the board; of course.
Segher
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