Re: [coreboot] Added Shuttle SN25P wiki page & links

2008-09-04 Thread Stefan Reinauer
Vincent Legoll wrote: >> And a coreboot using them could probably be >> argued to be a derivative work of the factory BIOS, and that is not >> so good from a licensing perspective. >> > > That would be subject to local copyright laws, I think, and providing a > way to load external ACPI tables

Re: [coreboot] Added Shuttle SN25P wiki page & links

2008-09-04 Thread Rudolf Marek
Hi, The problem with use of original ACPI tables is different resources which might be static in the tables. Like I/O ports (legacy, smbus, pmio etc etc) Plus there might be some regions of memory reserved, which are not on Coreboot etc. Basically it is not so difficult to create your own ACP

Re: [coreboot] Added Shuttle SN25P wiki page & links

2008-09-04 Thread Vincent Legoll
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Peter Stuge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> An area where I need something explained (that I didn't found in >> the wiki) is: what would be required to have ACPI working ? >> >> Couldn't we extract the tables from legacy BIOS and use them >> within coreboot, if we don'

Re: [coreboot] Added Shuttle SN25P wiki page & links

2008-09-04 Thread Peter Stuge
Vincent Legoll wrote: > But I intend to have a coreboot which is able to run the linux kernel > without special parameters, is that a realistic goal to aim for ? I think so. > An area where I need something explained (that I didn't found in > the wiki) is: what would be required to have ACPI wor

Re: [coreboot] Added Shuttle SN25P wiki page & links

2008-09-04 Thread Vincent Legoll
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Peter Stuge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vincent Legoll wrote: >> http://www.coreboot.org/Shuttle_SN25P > > Great notes! > > Only comment I can think of is to keep the tested kernel options > around even if they are discarded as not being useful, to keep record > of

Re: [coreboot] Added Shuttle SN25P wiki page & links

2008-09-04 Thread Peter Stuge
Vincent Legoll wrote: > http://www.coreboot.org/Shuttle_SN25P Great notes! Only comment I can think of is to keep the tested kernel options around even if they are discarded as not being useful, to keep record of what has been tried. //Peter -- coreboot mailing list coreboot@coreboot.org http:

[coreboot] Added Shuttle SN25P wiki page & links

2008-09-04 Thread Vincent Legoll
Hello, While I still have that info fresh in my head, I wrote what I did for the Shuttle SN25P mainboard port. main page: http://www.coreboot.org/Shuttle_SN25P linked from entry in supported mainboards Thanks to all who helped me getting there, I hope collaboration will continue. -- Vincent Le