Christer Weinigel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I've been stuck at home with a cold during the week(end), so I've been > fooling around a bit with a National Semiconductor SC2200 based > system. It has taken me a couple of days to get the chipset setup and > ram sizing working, but now it can boot a Linux kernel from flash. > > The PCI bus with two NatSemi DP8315 ethernet chips on it works, the > built in IDE and USB controllers also work. The built in serial > ports, ACCESS.bus controller, watchdog and RTC also work. I have not > looked at graphics or sound at all and getting that working will > probably be a lot of work. > > Is anybody else using a SC1200, SC2200 or SC3200 based system and > interested in getting LinuxBIOS running on that system? I'd be happy > to share what I have now, but it does need to be cleaned up a bit > first. There are a lot of more things that could be done too, such as > optimizing the memory, there are at least another 256k of RAM that > could be given to the Linux kernel, and of course there's graphics and > sound to work on. > > I've seen a few messages regarding getting Grub/Etherboot/Tiara > running instead of linuxbiosmain. Has anybody done work in that > direction?
LinuxBIOS can load an standalone ELF executable. you just set the USE_ELF_BOOT=1 option. This includes etherboot, and memtest86. Although etherboot requires a patch at the moment. Tiara was a strange offshoot. I don't know what became of them. Grub unfortunantely is very highly tied to the x86 bios. > What I would like to do is to use grub to boot from a > local hard drive/Compact Flash, or Etherboot to boot over network > using a NatSemi DP83815 ethernet controller. > > Another thing, and this might be anathema on this list *grin*, do you > know what Windows CE needs to be able to boot, could it be persuaded > to boot from LinuxBIOS do you think? How hard would it be? SiS has already gotten Windows CE to boot, on their hardware. If we start booting everything under the sun we might have to change the name back to freebios. But otherwise. Eric
