Re: [LinuxBIOS] Support for Intel G965 GMCH Chipset?

2006-10-31 Thread ron minnich
On 10/31/06, Uwe Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is it common that you need more documentation than that for Intelchipsets? Are they usually missing important bits? Those public docs, once so helpful, are now mostly useless. The important content is not there. As for the example code - I'm no

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Support for Intel G965 GMCH Chipset?

2006-10-31 Thread Uwe Hermann
Hi, On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 11:20:36AM -0600, Richard Smith wrote: > I don't want to stop you from trying an Intel port since we get requests > for newer Intel chips all the time, BUT what you are looking at is a > pretty tall order. You need to sit down with whatever vendor you have > that re

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Support for Intel G965 GMCH Chipset?

2006-10-31 Thread ron minnich
On 10/31/06, Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Chris Ziomkowski wrote:> Second, the mainboards all come with an 8 Mbit BIOS flash. Will this be> enough to boot Linux directly? There is no IDE capability on these> boards, so the only disk options are USB or SATA. I don't need video > support.

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Support for Intel G965 GMCH Chipset?

2006-10-31 Thread Richard Smith
Chris Ziomkowski wrote: > Second, the mainboards all come with an 8 Mbit BIOS flash. Will this be > enough to boot Linux directly? There is no IDE capability on these > boards, so the only disk options are USB or SATA. I don't need video > support. There will only be a serial console. Missed t

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Support for Intel G965 GMCH Chipset?

2006-10-31 Thread Richard Smith
Chris Ziomkowski wrote: > > Any comments would be appreciated. Am I getting in over my head? Do you > think linuxbios is stable enough to consider for a commercial product? Stability is a matter of reference. On chipsets/mainboards that have a bit of time under their belt they are very stabl

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Support for Intel G965 GMCH Chipset?

2006-10-29 Thread ron minnich
Here is what I am told by commercial companies, building products, who need to use LinuxBIOS: If you have a credible business case for LinuxBIOS on Intel systems, Intel will help you with LinuxBIOS. This was also covered at a talk at the LinuxBIOS summit last year. I am told that Intel continues to

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Support for Intel G965 GMCH Chipset?

2006-10-29 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Peter Stuge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061029 15:44]: > > Do you think linuxbios is stable enough to consider for a > > commercial product? > > I think LinuxBIOS is more stable than any commercial BIOS, and that's > just one of it's advantages. :) I would even say 99.99% of all LinuxBIOS systems are

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Support for Intel G965 GMCH Chipset?

2006-10-29 Thread Peter Stuge
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 05:41:17PM +0700, Chris Ziomkowski wrote: > The G965 is not listed as supported, and I've been unable to find > any comforting comments in the list archives. I am an accomplished > embedded systems programmer, but my time is stretched very thin on > this project. Do you guys

[LinuxBIOS] Support for Intel G965 GMCH Chipset?

2006-10-29 Thread Chris Ziomkowski
I am investigating options for an embedded systems project which we need to launch Q1 next year. I found linuxbios and love the idea. I have a few concerns though, and I thought someone here might be able to help me decide how difficult it might be to go this route. First, all of the mainboard