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Corey Osgood cbb8d8ad24 This patch fixes up a couple mistakes I made with the i82810 and mew-vw to make 
the system boot to a command line.

This patch comments out the code to set up the vga framebuffer to allow
the system to boot, without this fix the system hangs during elfboot.

The only line that is absolutely necessary to change is the SMRAM setup,
however I've commented out all vga setup to make it very obvious to both
the kernel/payload and anyone looking at the code that vga isn't
currently working. This setup might also be better handled in
northbridge.c, if it doesn't need to be done before ram init, yet
another reason to comment it all. In the future, LinuxBIOS needs to be
told that the graphics memory area, 1mb or 512kb (at the user or
developer's option), is reserved for the onchip vga, but I'm not sure if
it's taken at the top or bottom of the memory, yet. LB may also need to
set a base address for the AGP aperture and/or be told that range is
reserved as well, whether this was originally the job of the system bios
or vga bios is still a mystery. It also corrects the number of entries
in irq_tables.c, without this fix the kernel would probably complain and
hang due to unmapped IRQs.

Signed-off-by: Corey Osgood <corey.osgood@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>



git-svn-id: svn://svn.coreboot.org/coreboot/trunk@2725 2b7e53f0-3cfb-0310-b3e9-8179ed1497e1
 		2007-06-19 07:33:39 +00:00
documentation Document POST codes emitted by LinuxBIOSv2. 2007-03-03 15:01:29 +00:00
src This patch fixes up a couple mistakes I made with the i82810 and mew-vw to make 2007-06-19 07:33:39 +00:00
targets small agami aruma configuration updates (trivial) 2007-06-14 21:45:21 +00:00
util Fix up and document the AMD CS5530/CS5530A support in flashrom. 2007-06-06 21:35:45 +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.