I'll resend this message as I believe it was lost. Please see Ron's response about turning the IDE controllers on in the mainboard section.
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Adam Agnew wrote: > > Yeah, something has happened with this. I have code that will do what we > want but I can't release it because of licensing issues. I pulled code out > of RedBoot and grafted it into etherboot. Redboot is supposed to go LGPL > "real soon now".. I don't expect real soon now to be fast enough though, > so now I'm replacing that RedBoot code (which is all file system > junk than a polled ide driver) with Grub code (the redboot ext2 code > isn't that great anyway), and if redboot isn't dual liscensed with lgpl > still when i'm done that i'll rewrite the polled ide access code myself. > Then I think it's safe to release it. So it's in the works for release and > certainly works right now. > > Any chipset that wants to use it will need to turn its IDE controllers on > first. If your chipset doesn't have its ide controllers turned on in > linuxbios, you need to do that. You can test to see if your IDE > controllers are turned on successfully with an image i made of RedBoot in > http://www.missl.cs.umd.edu/~agnew/redboot.ebi by typing "disks" when > redboot comes up. If it shows you your partition table, it worked. > > - adam > > > On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Nick French wrote: > > > Has anything happened with this. We have some DOM's and would like to use > > the stock flash part that comes with the board. David now have one our > > 810LMR board running with the DOC. The following link seems to be dead from > > here. > > > > http://www.linuxforum.com/plug/articles/nuni.html > > > > Thanks > > > > Nick > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Adam Agnew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Eric W. Biederman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: "Ronald G Minnich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 10:16 PM > > Subject: Re: K7+sis730 combo+32DIP > > > > > > > > > > > > > I think what we want is called Nuni. > > > http://www.linuxforum.com/plug/articles/nuni.html > > > > > > It's written in nasm and pretty straight forward. i've been working on > > > converting it to an elf compatible format, switching the video io to > > > serial, and adding a delay for the time anticipated to have the hard > > > drives spin up, but haven't gotten it quite right yet. It looks to be just > > > what we need in the most minimalist fashion. > > > > > > (it will only work on lba compatible ide drives by the way) > > > > > > I've also tried contacting the author but haven't been able to get through > > > to him yet. > > > > > > > > > On 8 Aug 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > > > > > > Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > > > Anybody seen a new motherboard for sis 730 that has 32dip? > > > > > > > > > > This 256KB FLASH thing is getting to be more, not less of a problem. > > > > > Anybody out there have a clever idea on how to get around it? > > > > > > > > I guess as I see it. linuxBIOS is small. We just need to make certain > > > > we have a bootloader that is also small. > > > > > > > > A unix style kernel without a network stack can be small enough to fit > > > > comfortably in 32KB uncompressed. So it becomes a matter of getting > > > > a small unix kernel we can use. For what we want to do that is really > > > > the long term solution. We just need to either send the linux kernel > > > > on a diet (my prefered option) or start with something like uzix and > > > > build it up to the point we can use it. > > > > > > > > Being safe from the becoming a hacked operating system problem is more > > > > important than reusing drivers. Though being able to reuse drivers is > > > > nice. And as long as we limit ourselves to a certain subset of the > > > > common cases so we only need to write drivers for industry standard > > > > hardware we are in good shape. > > > > > > > > Eric > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
