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Uwe Hermann 3acf31e4ea Further code simplifications and improvements.
Add command line option handling code. The following options
are defined at the moment:

-d|--dump      Dump Super I/O registers.
-V|--verbose   Verbose mode.
-v|--version   Show the superiotool version.
-h|--help      Show a short help text.

Per default (no options) we just probe for a Super I/O
and print its vendor, name, ID, version, and config port.

Example:

$ ./superiotool
Found SMSC FDC37N769 Super I/O (id=0x28, rev=0x01) at port=0x03f0

$ ./superiotool -d
Found SMSC FDC37N769 Super I/O (id=0x28, rev=0x01) at port=0x03f0
idx 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0a 0b 0c 0d 0e 0f 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1a 1b 1c 1d 1e 1f 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 2a 2b 2c 2d 2e 2f
val 20 90 80 f4 00 00 ff 00 00 00 40 00 0e 28 01 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 01 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 ba 00 00 03 00 00 23 03 03 00 00
def 28 9c 88 70 00 00 ff 00 00 00 00 00 02 28 NA 00 00 80 RR RR NA NA NA 03 RR RR RR RR RR RR 80 00 3c RR RR 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 RR 00 00 03 00 00

$ ./superiotool -s
./superiotool: invalid option -- s

$ ./superiotool -h
Usage: superiotool [-d] [-V] [-v] [-h]

$ ./superiotool -v
superiotool 0.1


Signed-off-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>
Acked-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>



git-svn-id: svn://svn.coreboot.org/coreboot/trunk@2788 2b7e53f0-3cfb-0310-b3e9-8179ed1497e1
2007-09-19 01:55:35 +00:00
documentation Document POST codes emitted by LinuxBIOSv2. 2007-03-03 15:01:29 +00:00
src Add support for a precompressed LZMA payload (trivial). 2007-09-19 00:57:37 +00:00
targets Add initial support for the Intel 810 based board MSI MS-6178. 2007-09-12 22:11:33 +00:00
util Further code simplifications and improvements. 2007-09-19 01:55:35 +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

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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.