"Thomas J. Merritt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> We have previously, I expect that if we can get over the threshold
> of having SmartFirmware work on one board, that any future boards we
> support we would at least pass on our experience with the board. Can you
> recommend a readily orderable motherboard (K7 preferable) that the
> current CVS sources of linuxbios will run on?
I can't recommend a motherboard, at this time. I'd love to recommend the
tyan thunder K7 but there are some gaps I had to leave out, that require either
reverse engineering the K7 or an NDA with AMD.
So something based on the SiS730 chipset would be my recommendation,
for a board to play with. There are one or two of them already
supported in the tree, and most boards with the SiS730 chipset will
probably use the integrated features and be very similiar.
On the linuxBIOS side SiS has devoted a developer, to help with
embedded systems. Their take on it seems to be that linuxBIOS for
getting to the linux kernel is much smaller then the other alternatives
so is a good deal. I don't know what SiS's take on smart firmware
would be.
OTOH it wouldn't be hard to have linuxBIOS be load an ELF executable
from flash that would be your smart firmware.... The elf bootloader
already exists.
Eric
