[OpenBIOS] newbie

Ronald G. Minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Thu May 19 11:55:24 CEST 2005



On Thu, 19 May 2005, San Mehat wrote:

> One question.. I seem to have noticed that there doesnt appear to be a
> lot of chipset specific code in CVS (or perhaps i'm just missing it
> somewhere). I read in the x86/entry.S that the cpu is expected to be in
> protected mode with flat memory setup already. Does this mean that
> theres a 'missing link' that needs to be done to get the chipsets up and
> memory initialized? Or is it just somewhere else that I've missed?.

the idea now is that on raw iron, openbios runs on top of linuxbios. 

I'm working on ideas for a merge, so you just build one thing. 

ron



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