Re: Linux/ix86 booting process and BIOS

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Mon Feb 21 2000 - 19:05:41 EST


"Richard B. Johnson" wrote:
>
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Strohm Thomas (FV/SLD) * wrote:
>
> > > > - To which extent is the initialization stuff performed by the BIOS
> > repeated
>
> If you find an 'open BIOS' source somewhere, where you add your board-
> specific stuff, but it has the drivers for generic stuff like the
> floppy, etc., I sure would like to know.

OpenBIOS: http://www.freiburg.linux.de/openbios/
Status: machine init, no BIOS interrupt support

LinusBIOS: http://www.acl.lanl.gov/linuxbios/
Status: loads Linux on L440GX, not sufficient as a standalone BIOS

And source code for Via's Award BIOS, albeit with "trade secret" stamped
all over it, is still sitting in a public area on their FTP site:
ftp://ftp.via.com.tw/public/sw/

Regards,

        Jeff

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