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Ronald G. Minnich 65bc460e01 This code gets us to a working linux boot on the alix1c. I have not tested
Ethernet yet. The fixes are a board-specific fake spd_read_byte, cleaning up 
comments, and just in general customizing for the 1c. 

The lxraminit 
change fixes a bug (&& used instead of ||), adds some debug prints which were
VERY useful debugging the alix1c, changes fatal error messages from print_debug
to print_emerg, and adds two functions: 
banner, which just prints out a string with a banner, and 
hcf, which print an emergency message and then pushes null bytes
into the uart forever, just to make sure that no bytes get lost 
for any reason. 


Signed-off-by: Ronald G. Minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Stuge <peter@stuge.se>



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documentation Document POST codes emitted by LinuxBIOSv2. 2007-03-03 15:01:29 +00:00
src This code gets us to a working linux boot on the alix1c. I have not tested 2007-10-26 14:57:46 +00:00
targets Add support for the AXUS TC320 thin client. 2007-10-26 14:42:21 +00:00
util Added Am29LV040B 2007-10-25 04:11:11 +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.