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Carl-Daniel Hailfinger 4d1aa0a9eb This patch is an attempt at introducing 4k CAR size granularity for the
generic x86 CAR code. For the old supported CAR sizes, the newly
generated code is equivalent, so it should be a no-brainer.

Add a copyright header to the code, the header is derived from the one
found in the same piece of code in v3.

Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net> 
Acked-by: Marc Jones <marc.jones@amd.com> 


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documentation Document POST codes emitted by LinuxBIOSv2. 2007-03-03 15:01:29 +00:00
src This patch is an attempt at introducing 4k CAR size granularity for the 2008-01-08 17:06:38 +00:00
targets Change default payload to /tmp/filo.elf (trivial). 2007-12-21 16:38:21 +00:00
util Add support for the SST25VF040B 4 Mbit SPI flash chip. 2008-01-07 13:48:51 +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
------------------------

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.