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Corey Osgood aeea7c1438 Via C3 datasheets don't make any mention of microcode updates, and the 
C7 bios programmer's guide explicitly states they're not necessary, and
leaves it at that. Even if they are possible and exist, we don't have
any info on it, nor any updates, so drop these unneeded references.

Signed-off-by: Corey Osgood <corey.osgood@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ronald G. Minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>




git-svn-id: svn://svn.coreboot.org/coreboot/trunk@3048 2b7e53f0-3cfb-0310-b3e9-8179ed1497e1
 		2008-01-12 21:44:57 +00:00
documentation Document POST codes emitted by LinuxBIOSv2. 2007-03-03 15:01:29 +00:00
src Via C3 datasheets don't make any mention of microcode updates, and the 2008-01-12 21:44:57 +00:00
targets Fix these to use a more standard relative path for payload. 2008-01-11 22:37:27 +00:00
util This patch removes '\n' from the help output since this looks a bit strange. 2008-01-11 00:32:07 +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.