----- Original Message ----- From: "Corey Osgood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Darmawan Salihun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "linuxbios" <linuxbios@linuxbios.org> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 00:07 Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] [RFC] Call for Action: LinuxBIOS foundations
> Darmawan Salihun wrote: >> On 8/29/07, *Uwe Hermann* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: >> >> The real problems (in my view) are: >> >> 1. Lack of developers >> 2. Lack of time >> 3. Lack of proper datasheets (for some/many chipsets) >> >> Issue 2 cannot be solved easily, issue 3 depends on many factors >> we usually cannot influence a lot, but issue 1 is where we can >> get the biggest gain, IMHO. >> >> >> I wonder if clean-room reverse engineering on commercial BIOS that comes >> with the board can help for case 3 because most of them have a "generic" >> code to boot the machine until preliminary RAM test. Personally, I >> view it >> as a *very interesting* challenge. > > Very interesting, yes, but that routes directly back to problem 1. More > developers could lead the creation of a separate project with that goal > in mind, but for now everyone's working with what they have. If we had > more people/time, such things might be feasible and very beneficial. suggestion: make a tool based that emits a trace of whats going on ... i would suggest first making a tool for extracting award flash enables.... -Todthgie > > -Corey > > -- > linuxbios mailing list > linuxbios@linuxbios.org > http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios