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Carl-Daniel Hailfinger 7a7890aced This patch rewrites probe_superio almost completely. Common code sequences have been factored out, the code has been made more generic, has better handling of corner cases and is actually much shorter. It also adds probing for almost all recent (since 1999) ITE Super I/O chips to probe_superio. I did verify against all ITE datasheets (including those not available any more) that the probing was non-destructive. For the ITE IT8712F, the complete configuration is dumped and as comparison the default value from the data sheet is printed. More information can be extracted easily, however this needs loads of datasheet surfing. This code has been tested extensively, dumping for other ITE chips will follow as a separate patch. Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net> Acked-by: Stefan Reinauer <stepan@coresystems.de> git-svn-id: svn://svn.coreboot.org/coreboot/trunk@2749 2b7e53f0-3cfb-0310-b3e9-8179ed1497e1		2007-08-27 07:28:28 +00:00
documentation	Document POST codes emitted by LinuxBIOSv2.	2007-03-03 15:01:29 +00:00
src	Fix Agami Aruma target (the only one using the part)	2007-07-12 20:07:54 +00:00
targets	Artec Group dbe61 mainboard support.	2007-06-20 23:45:44 +00:00
util	This patch rewrites probe_superio almost completely.	2007-08-27 07:28:28 +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
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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
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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.