Porting

[Eric W. Biederman]

Joshua Wise <joshua at joshuawise.com> writes:

> Hi all,
> 
> I've got a ABIT KG7-RAID board here that I'd like to port LinuxBIOS to (and a 
> school vacation coming up that I was planning to be bored over.) There used 
> to be a page that had info on that, but my bookmark seems to be broken.
> 
> Can someone tell me what data I will need to gather to determine how much work 
> I'll need to do, and what tools I'll need? I read that you guys use DoCs and 
> BIOS saviors - do the DoCs work through the BIOS saviors? or will I have to 
> hot-swap flash chips?

The DoCs are optional, and actually one of the trickier cases.

lspci is the first step of determining which hardware you have.
The you need to find documentation for the hardware that needs
to be supported.

Eric