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Carl-Daniel Hailfinger 34153ac0b8 Autodetect presence of serial flash and set up the board accordingly. This enables us to have only one configuration and one set of code for all revisions of the Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4. Flash is now setup correctly for both SPI and LPC flash. Detection of SPI flash in flashrom on rev. 2.x boards now hangs instead of failing. However, that is just an effect of the combination of incomplete initialization of the SPI controller and paranoid checks in the flashrom SPI code. If anyone wants to work on that, he needs a logic analyzer or creative imagination. Hint: LPC-to-SPI read passthrough, clock signal. Remaining issues for the M57SLI: Fan/environment control. Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net> Acked-by: Harald Gutmann <harald.gutmann@gmx.net> git-svn-id: svn://svn.coreboot.org/coreboot/trunk@2972 2b7e53f0-3cfb-0310-b3e9-8179ed1497e1		2007-11-14 15:09:30 +00:00
documentation	Document POST codes emitted by LinuxBIOSv2.	2007-03-03 15:01:29 +00:00
src	Autodetect presence of serial flash and set up the board accordingly.	2007-11-14 15:09:30 +00:00
targets	Random minor cosmetical or coding style fixes (trivial).	2007-11-13 16:24:15 +00:00
util	Add detection and dump support for the SMSC FDC37N958FR (trivial).	2007-11-14 00:30:36 +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

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LinuxBIOS README
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.