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Carl-Daniel Hailfinger 0de6f0a36f This patch aims to restructure SPI flash support in a more reasonable 
way. It introduces a generic SPI host driver for the IT8716F Super I/O
which will enable easy SPI programming without having to care for the
peculiarities of the SPI host.

To activate probing for the IT8716F, you have to use the gigabyte:m57sli
mainboard override. SPI support will then use the gathered SPI host data
to access the SPI flash.

This has been tested sucessfully by Ward Vandewege <ward@gnu.org> on the
GA-M57SLI v2.0, which has a MX25L4005 SPI flash part.

Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Acked-by: Ward Vandewege <ward@gnu.org>



git-svn-id: svn://svn.coreboot.org/coreboot/trunk@2817 2b7e53f0-3cfb-0310-b3e9-8179ed1497e1
 		2007-10-02 15:49:25 +00:00
documentation Document POST codes emitted by LinuxBIOSv2. 2007-03-03 15:01:29 +00:00
src Thee lines in i82801xx_pci.c need to be removed. They cause the 2007-10-01 18:32:00 +00:00
targets Fix abuild for the MSI MS-7260 (trivial). 2007-09-21 23:13:28 +00:00
util This patch aims to restructure SPI flash support in a more reasonable 2007-10-02 15:49:25 +00:00
COPYING update license template. 2006-08-12 22:03:36 +00:00
NEWS hurry hurry before we might start 3.0 ;-) 2006-09-08 16:34:51 +00:00
README Add a note that the resulting LinuxBIOS images are licensed under the 2007-02-27 22:21:59 +00:00

README 

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
LinuxBIOS README
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

LinuxBIOS is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary
BIOS you can find in most of today's computers.

It performs just a little bit of hardware initialization and then executes
one of many possible payloads, e.g. a Linux kernel.


Payloads
--------

After the basic initialization of the hardware has been performed, any
desired "payload" can be started by LinuxBIOS. Examples include:

 * A Linux kernel
 * FILO (a simple bootloader with filesystem support)
 * GRUB2 (a free bootloader; support is in development)
 * OpenBIOS (a free IEEE1275-1994 Open Firmware implementation)
 * Open Firmware (a free IEEE1275-1994 Open Firmware implementation)
 * SmartFirmware (a free IEEE1275-1994 Open Firmware implementation)
 * GNUFI (a free, UEFI-compatible firmware)
 * Etherboot (for network booting and booting from raw IDE or FILO)
 * ADLO (for booting Windows 2000 or OpenBSD)
 * Plan 9 (a distributed operating system)
 * memtest86 (for testing your RAM)


Supported Hardware
------------------

LinuxBIOS supports a wide range of chipsets, devices, and mainboards.

For details please consult:

 * http://www.linuxbios.org/Supported_Motherboards
 * http://www.linuxbios.org/Supported_Chipsets_and_Devices


Website and Mailing List
------------------------

Further details on the project, a FAQ, many HOWTOs, news, development
guidelines and more can be found on the LinuxBIOS website:

  http://www.linuxbios.org

You can contact us directly on the LinuxBIOS mailing list:

  http://www.linuxbios.org/Mailinglist


Copyright and License
---------------------

The copyright on LinuxBIOS is owned by quite a large number of individual
developers and companies. Please check the individual source files for details.

LinuxBIOS is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Some files are licensed under the "GPL (version 2, or any later version)",
and some files (mostly those derived from the Linux kernel) are licensed under
the "GPL, version 2". For some parts, which were derived from other projects,
other (GPL-compatible) licenses may apply. Please check the individual
source files for details.

This makes the resulting LinuxBIOS images licensed under the GPL, version 2.