[LinuxBIOS] about LinuxBIOS compilation on tyan s2912

roger roger at eskimo.com
Wed May 16 00:13:18 CEST 2007


On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 16:10 -0400, Ning (Michael) Qu wrote:
> Hi,  All,

I don't have this board, but do have a Tyan board.

> We just got the tyan s2912 mainboard and we plan to build a LinuxBIOS
> for it soon. I know there is a huge patch for s2912 which was not
> merged into LinuxBIOS in Mar.
> How  about the status of that patch or
> how about the support for s2912 in LinuxBIOS. 

There is a src/mainboard/tyan/s2912 profile.  So chances are, it's
working... check the FAQ (or google "linuxbios supported motherboards")

Patches move along really quick on the linuxbios mailing list... March
was a long time ago! 

> Could anyone give some
> suggestion about building LinuxBIOS for s2912. And another question is
> that, does flashrom support s2912 now? 

simply compile util/flashrom and run ./flashrom without any options.

If it finds your chip, it supports it.


> And how to deal with the video
> BIOS for s2912? Thanks for your help and advices!

See the Linuxbios FAQ on VGA support.  (There's a howto on the wiki
page.)

> 
> Best,
> Ning

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