LinuxBIOS

Hendricks David W. dwh at lanl.gov
Tue Feb 10 16:54:01 CET 2004


And yes, Tyan is so important that I mentioned them twice.

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Hendricks David W. wrote:

> Add Tyan to that list.
> 
> Support documentation--HOWTOs are always nice. There are so many possible 
> combinations of mainboards and variatous revisions of different mainboards 
> and flash parts that it's impossible for any single party to test them 
> all. If you get around to building and installing LinuxBIOS for your 
> machine, we'd like to hear about your experience and details about which 
> parts work.
> 
> And you should add Tyan (http://www.tyan.com) to your list. Dr. Lu has 
> contributed a lot to the project and the S2885 has shown to be a very 
> capable workstation and server mainboard.
> 
> On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Ben Wang wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have been following the mailinglist for some time now (several months) 
> > I have noticed that there is alot of active development.
> > 
> > I represent a System Integration company (Synrax) based in Australia 
> > however, I have also been in contact with my manufacturers and have 
> > managed to capture their interest regarding LinuxBIOS.  These 
> > manufacturers include:
> > 
> > Axiomtek (http://www.axiomtek.com.tw)
> > Iwill (http://www.iwill.net)
> > Evalue (http://www.evalue-tech.com)
> > 
> > Axiomtek and Evalue produce embedded SBCs whilst Iwill products 
> > Server/Workstation mainboards.
> > 
> > My question is, what type of support documentation and/or other 
> > information is required to take LinuxBIOS to an even greater level?
> > 
> > I wish to try/port LinuxBIOS to as many different boards as I can 
> > (time/resources permitting). Unfortunately, BIOS level programming is a 
> > relatively new area for me so my contributions may be limited to testing 
> > and providing documentation (where possible) initially.
> > 
> > Thank you for taking the time to read this.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Ben Wang
> > Senior Applications Engineer,
> > Synrax Australia Pty. Ltd.
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