On Wednesday, March 17, 2004, at 02:26 PM, Frank wrote:
I must be missing something here but in freebios v1 there is plenty of supprt for the SIS chip sets. I downloaded freebios2 (thanks you everyone for the information) but I don't see any support for the SIS chips. I thought freebios2 was a superset of freebios1 and would therefore have all of the freebios support plus some. it doesn't appear to be that way. Am I missing something...
Not superset, improved, rewritten port of freebios1. Freebios1 had some limitations / weaknesses in that it was difficult to add a new board. Memory initialization was difficult and lots of the code was assembly, which speaking for myself isn't a skill many people excel at I would imagine.
Freebios2 addresses some of the problems developers were having with freebios1. Although I am completely unfamiliar with the amd64 stuff alot of what freebios2 does is facilitate that arch so the features and such could be added. New boards should be started on freebios2, any existing code from freebios1 can be brought into freebios2 I would imagine as it is needed. (You have to realize I am not a freebios developer) just trying to answer some of the questions I think I know the answers to so the developers can develop.
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