Hi!
I've attached an updated glossary of commonly used technical terms in
the linuxBIOS community. It may or may not contain some
misinterpretations/misunderstanding or irrelevant info etc., and there are
some words/acronyms which I haven't found an explanation for (please feel
free to fill me
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
so, peter, you want to accumulate the Glossary for us :-)
Sure. It's the least I could do. What would be required of me? I just
downloaded a snapshot (the last time I tried cvs it didn't work), so I'll
have a look at the code (I'm not good at C or x86
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Peter Stuge wrote:
Exactly right. But with the right flash memory on the mainboard you
can use the operating system (Linux) as payload directly.
Ok, thanks. I've seen this discussed on this list; dependent on size of
flash mem.
I'm not sure I agree that the bar must be
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Peter Stuge wrote:
There are probably more sections that would be useful too.
Technical jargon? I'm still a bit confused about what payload is and
there's probably quite a few words/acronyms that are being used but it's
hard to know exactly what they mean.
Best regards
Peter
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Bryan E. Chafy wrote:
Although one gotcha would be anything that's timing related. Memory/IO access
proxied through the serial port would also be orders of magnatude slower.
When the DRAM test completes, we'll all be dead :)
Also, rom bios code memory references would have to
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Anton Borisov wrote:
Payload is file that holds, for instance, LAN ROM, i.e. software
responsible for remoting loading from server. It's just an example. There
are FAQs (try to google) which explain much of your questions.
LinuxBIOS (initialises hardware) - payload
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
linuxbios is a subset of freebios that seems to equal the entire set.
openbios for the most part runs on top of Linuxbios.
So openbios is part of linuxbios which is part of freebios?
Best regards
Peter K
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On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
-Linux bios team
http://www.viaarena.com/guides/WinCE/fastboot%20v2.03.zip
Looks like via is passing out linux bios, with out ever saying any thing
about GPL or linuxbios.org...
we've got a couple of GPL violators in the linuxbios space. I
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
I think you want a true emulator for this, did you look at qemu?
Yep, got a pointer from R.Smith. Thanks!
Best regards
Peter K
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Hi!
I was just wondering if it's possible to use linuxbios as a kind of
virtualisation machine, meaning that I could use linuxbios to snoop
windows drivers for register hunting (to get real 3D-gfx-support for
instance)? This means that windows would run as a virtual os.
Best regards
Peter K
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On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Richard Smith wrote:
Not really. LinuxBIOS is pretty much for booting live hardware. What
I think you wan't is the bochs project, VMware or Win4lin.
Well, if snooping is going to work the windows drivers has to talk to the
hardware, which vmware bochs doesn't support.
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Richard Smith wrote:
So you mean some sort of HAL like the VM on a IBM370 does.
Yes.
Possible but linuxBIOS is a _long_ way from that. And it's not really
compatible with its overall goal which is to get the hardware up
enough that a linux kernel can take over. Load a
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
That is an issue. AMD is very friendly, but some third parties (Nvidia,
ServerWorks) are very unfriendly. It remains to be seen whether the idea
of an open source BIOS is viable, in the face of such opposition from the
chipset vendors.
How
a look : http://www.qsl.net/f6flv
Is there an english version of this
(http://www.qsl.net/f6flv/docbios.html)?
Best regards
Peter Karlsson
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