Jordi Polo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> hello, i'm a member of the tuxbox project (www.tuxboxproject.com) we want to
> make a linux based console (not like indrema) and we obviusly we'll need
> linbios to make it boot fast and boot in a "console way" TM .
> The motherboard we are going to use is the one of the topic , i think you
> don't support it so i need to know if you are going to support it or if a
> kernel hacker (with no bios knowledge ) could himself make the linbios
> support for it. Or if it's know any special issue with it .
I'd say if you can hack the kernel you can probably port linuxBIOS to
another chipset. We have no legacy BIOS code so what passes as BIOS
knowledge really doesn't help.
However. Note that after working something memory initialization for
linuxBIOS you will have no question that C is a high level language
and that the kernel is an easy environment to program in.
But the only real hard part is making sure you can get all of the
documentation. Open Source hasn't been present in the hardware arena
yet, so vendors are still being educated.
Eric
