OpenBIOS news.

Stefan Reinauer stepan at wesley.informatik.uni-freiburg.de
Sat Nov 21 19:05:11 CET 1998


Hi...

> Ok, so I included another project I used to work on a year ago. It aimed
> towards loading a linux kernel from a ISA board iwht loats of flash.  I
> never got it working though (kernel hangs during uncompress) but some of
> the folks that are requesting kernel-in-rom features might find fixing
> this a faster path than waiting for our project...
> It was written for a now-discontinued Ampro board, but Sealevel
> (http://www.sealevel.com) and Advantech (http://www.adavantech-usa.com)
> have similar products available, porting should be trivial.  
> 
> /Daniel

So.. there are two new files in http://www.freiburg.linux.de/OpenBIOS/bin/


Look at it and continue hacking...

I'd say that we should include the menuconfig stuff as fast as possible,
no matter whether we allow multiple chipsets or not....

It's no problem to have either method in the .config file

Stefan.

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