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Juergen Beisert 557a9018ed Make the reserved video memory on Geode GX1 based systems configurable. 
This makes sense on systems with small memories when the VGA feature is
not used (CONFIG_VIDEO_MB = 0 in this case).

On Geode GX1 based systems the following amount of memory should be reserved
when VGA support is enabled:
 - 1MiB for VGA and SVGA resolutions
 - 2MiB for XGA resolution
 - 4MiB for SXGA resolution

Signed-off-by: Juergen Beisert <juergen127@kreuzholzen.de>
Acked-by: Peter Stuge <peter@stuge.se>
Acked-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>



git-svn-id: svn://svn.coreboot.org/coreboot/trunk@2840 2b7e53f0-3cfb-0310-b3e9-8179ed1497e1
 		2007-10-07 22:46:51 +00:00
documentation Document POST codes emitted by LinuxBIOSv2. 2007-03-03 15:01:29 +00:00
src Make the reserved video memory on Geode GX1 based systems configurable. 2007-10-07 22:46:51 +00:00
targets Fix abuild for the MSI MS-7260 (trivial). 2007-09-21 23:13:28 +00:00
util Some more ITE chips and small fixes (trivial). 2007-10-07 21:50:29 +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.