On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 03:10:02PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman mentioned:
> > It's a socketed BIOS, which is why I'd like a eeprom programmer for it,
> > so that if I do have a dead board, I can rip the PROM out & flash it with
> > a standard BIOS etc.
> If the board supports flashing from the board you can have two BIOS chips,
> one with the original BIOS and with for development of linuxBIOS and swap
> them.
Um...I assume they aren't hot swap. If I mess up, and I'm left with a
dead bios, how to I flash a fixed one on ? I assume I do need a eeprom
programmer. So...where do I get one ?
> > Excellent. That'll do. In ./src/kernel_patches/ they all mention "SiS".
> > Is the kernel patch very board-specific ? I've only gotten past stage one
> > so far.
> The kernel patches are all very minor. They are just to fill in little details.
> For the most part kernel patches are not necessary.
170k+ for the 2.4.7 SiS patch. It seems to be mainly power management and
setup stuff. If people have it working on BX previously, this patch (for
older versions of the kernel, maybe) must have been done before...yes ?
> > In the CVS tree, there is mainly code for the GX board. No mention of BX.
> > Is there code for a BX board anywhere ?
> There is code for BX in there. Though mostly not by board. Look under
> src/chipset/intel/440bx
Ah. I should have set "config" & patches for the BX. But how hard can
that be ;)
Kate
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