Franz Reinhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello,
>
> my company plans to manufacture a x86 system based on the STPC Atlas. At the
> moment, we're are considering different possibilities (fast booting sounds
> good) to implement a BIOS. While browsing your website, I discovered some
> code announced for the STPC chipset, which isn't maintained at the moment.
>
> Is there any howto or tutorial to port linuxbios for my purpose ?
There is some documentation on how to build linuxBIOS, coding it
unfortunantely has not yet been documented.
>
> Can you give me the email address of the developer who has posted the STPC
> linuxbios code ?
You might try reading through the list archives, and the source.
The STPC code was written before linuxBIOS really gelled as a project,
so has been more of code that we stole some initial ideas for.
> Can you estimate the effort to implement such a bios ?
My current estimates for a brand new chipset are running.
1 month for one man to get linuxBIOS up and running on a chipset.
1 month to debug that code.
As we improve the skeleton code this kind of thing gets easer.
Ram initialization is the only really hard part, and if you don't need
to support different kinds of SDRAM this isn't very hard at all.
Eric
