[LinuxBIOS] Will LinuxBIOS support my Gigabyte GA-7VTXE soon?

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Fri Mar 2 14:22:01 CET 2007


* Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net> [070302 14:10]:
> AFAIK the chip is organized in two areas which can be flashed separately
> and in case of a problem the fallback image in the unflashed area is
> executed.

Yes. This is also how Normal/Fallback in LinuxBIOS works. The question
is: Who decides which image to execute. Do they have an extra circuit
for that, or is it all done in software? (in which case it would exactly
match the LinuxBIOS way of doing things)

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