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Carl-Daniel Hailfinger 390648df64 Fix the remaining issues with GA-M57SLI Super I/O GPIO configuration.
With this patch, flashing the parallel EEPROM on board revisions 1.x
finally works. Flashing the serial EEPROM of board revisions 2.x is just
one patch away.

Torsten Duwe says:
Flash erase on my board was failing reliably. Now it works!

Andreas B. Mundt says:
For the first time I was able to write with flashrom and LB.
$flashrom -Vv --write linuxbios.rom
[...]
Vendor ID: GIGABYTE, part ID: m57sli
Found chipset "NVIDIA MCP55", enabling flash write... OK.
[...]
SST49LF040B found at physical address 0xfff80000.
Flash part is SST49LF040B (512 KB).
LinuxBIOS last image size (not ROM size) is 4096 bytes.
Manufacturer: GIGABYTE
Mainboard ID: m57sli
This firmware image matches this motherboard.
Programming page: 0007 at address: 0x00070000
Verifying flash... VERIFIED.


Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Acked-by: Torsten Duwe <duwe@lst.de>
Tested-by: Andreas B. Mundt <andi.mundt@web.de>
Tested-by: Torsten Duwe <duwe@lst.de>



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documentation Document POST codes emitted by LinuxBIOSv2. 2007-03-03 15:01:29 +00:00
src Fix the remaining issues with GA-M57SLI Super I/O GPIO configuration. 2007-11-12 11:14:10 +00:00
targets Fix up totally broken Super I/O config on the MS-6178. Add 2007-11-08 02:28:43 +00:00
util Use the preferred order of 'static const' instead of 'const static'. 2007-10-31 22:22:11 +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
--------

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.