I have been working for a while on STPC support for LinuxBIOS.

I am pleased to announce that I have been booting Linux for about 2 weeks
now from Disk-On-Chip Millennium devices in STPC platforms. The devices I
have verified are:

STPC Atlas
STPC Consumer-S
STPC Client

Although these are the only platforms I currently have for testing purposes,
the code should work on the following devices as well

STPC Consumer
STPC Industrial
STPC Consumer-II
STPC Elite

I have written IPL code which does the absolute minimum chipset
initialisation, then there is a small SPL because there is a quirk in the
DRAM sizing where you can only reliably have 4k of DRAM available during the
sizing routines, once memory sizing is done, I read LinuxBIOS from the DoC
and everything then boots as per normal LinuxBIOS.

Over the next few days I will be looking at cleanly integrating my code into
the latest LinuxBIOS source tree.

Anyone interested in more information is welcome to contact me.

Hamish

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