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This page contains information on how to get started building and installing LinuxBIOS, as well as build tutorials for various specific motherboards.

Build Tutorials

• IWILL DK8-HTX Build Tutorial (LinuxBIOSv2)
• GIGABYTE GA-M57SLI-S4 Build Tutorial (LinuxBIOSv2)
• QEMU Build Tutorial (LinuxBIOSv2)
• Tyan S2881 Build Tutorial (LinuxBIOSv2)
• Tyan S2882 Build Tutorial (LinuxBIOSv2)
• Tyan S2892 Build Tutorial — the OLPC way (LinuxBIOSv2)
• ASI MB-5BLMP Build Tutorial (LinuxBIOSv2)
• BCOM WINNET100 Build Tutorial (LinuxBIOSv2)
• ASUS A8N-E Build Tutorial (LinuxBIOSv2)
• AXUS WINTERM Build Tutorial (LinuxBIOSv2)

• SiS630 (LinuxBIOSv1)

Port Guides

Here are some port guides and experiences.

• LinuxBIOS on AMD64 (PDF) (LinuxBIOSv2)
• The EPIA-M/MII (LinuxBIOSv2)
• The Technoland SBC 710 (LinuxBIOSv1)
• The PC CHIPS M810LR (LinuxBIOSv1)

Other Documentation

• JTAG/BSDL Guide
• VGA support
• X11 on EPIA-M
• Lxbios documentation
• Configuration tool manual (from freebios/Documentation/configmanual.ps)
• Project Book, Mangrove LinuxBios from Mathieu Deschamps
• LinuxBIOS Glossary
• The USB EHCI Debug Port may be the easiest way to do early debugging without a legacy serial port.
• Christer Weinigel: Doing Linux programming close to the hardware (PDF)
• Doxygen generated build documentation
• Creating Valid IRQ Tables
• Some documentation on "piggybacking" using PLCC chips: 1, 2, 3.
• Booting Windows using LinuxBIOS
• LinuxBIOSv3

External articles

• LinuxBIOS at Four
• Integrating 9load into the LinuxBIOS
• Building and testing LinuxBIOSv2, step by step
• How to get the Iwill DK8-HTX running with LinuxBIOS

Papers/Articles/Slides

Breaking the Chains -- Using LinuxBIOS to Liberate Embedded x86 Processors

• Jordan H. Crouse, Marc E. Jones, Ronald G. Minnich
• Proceedings of the Linux Symposium, June 27th-­30th, 2007, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
• [ pdf | pdf (local copy) ]

LinuxBIOS - Freedom for your motherboard

• Alan Carvalho de Assis
• FISL 8.0 (8th Forum Internacional de Software Livre)
• [ pdf ]

FSF is moving towards LinuxBIOS deployment (Russian article)

• Anton Borisov
• SAMAG, 02-2006 (http://www.samag.ru)
• [ pdf | alternative PDF ]

FreeVGA: Architecture Independent Video Graphics Initialization for LinuxBIOS

• Li-Ta Lo, Gregory R. Watson, Ronald G. Minnich
• Usenix, February 25 2005 (??)
• [ html | pdf ]

Flexibility in ROM: A Stackable Open Source BIOS

• Adam Agnew, Adam Sulmicki, Ronald Minnich, William Arbaugh
• USENIX 2003 Annual Technical Conference, FREENIX Track
• [ HTML ]

Supermon: High performance monitoring for Linux clusters

• Ron Minnich, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Karen Reid, University of Toronto
• The Fifth Annual Linux Showcase and Conference, Oakland, CA, November 5-10 2001
• [ ps ]

LOBOS and LinuxBIOS

• Cluster Research Brochure
• prepared for SC 2000, November 4-10 2000
• [ pdf ]

The Linux BIOS

• Ron Minnich, James Hendricks, and Dale Webster, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• The Fourth Annual Linux Showcase and Conference, Atlanta, GA, October 4-11 2000
• [ pdf | ps ]

LOBOS (Linux OS Boots Linux OS): Booting a Kernel in 32-bit Mode

• Ron Minnich, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• The Fourth Annual Linux Showcase and Conference, Atlanta, GA, October 4-11 2000
• [ pdf | ps ]

Putting Linux on your motherboard

• Antony Stone
• Linux Magazine, March, 2003, Pg. 76
• [ pdf ]

Look Ma, No Bios

• Oleg Goldshmidt
• IBM Haifa Research Laboratory, July 2006
• Oleg's talks
• [ html | html.zip | ppt.zip | pdf ]

A Framework for Using Processor Cache as RAM (CAR)

• Eswaramoorthi Nallusamy
• University of New Mexico
• [ ppt | pdf]

Books

These books do not address LinuxBIOS specifically but provide background information useful for BIOS-level programming on PC hardware.

• PCI System Architecture
• HyperTransport System Architecture
• AMD K8 Processor Architecture (white paper/book excerpt)