[LinuxBIOS] Ron's Linux Journal article

Eric Poulsen eric at zyxod.com
Mon May 1 06:36:21 CEST 2006


Found it, posting it to the list for the benefit of others:

"Porting LinuxBIOS to the AMD SC520: A Follow-up Report"
[This has the nifty diagram of how all the *_SIZE options work together]
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8310

"LinuxBIOS at Four"
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7170

Ronald G Minnich wrote:

>>
>> Also, does anyone have a good explaination of:
>>
>> ROM_SIZE (Appears to be total size of your rom chip)
>> ROM_IMAGE_SIZE (Size of this rom image, fallback or normal),  
>> defaults to $10000 (64K)
>> ROM_SECTION_OFFSET=0x10000 ???
>> ROM_SECTION_SIZE=0x30000 ??? ROM section == total used by LB minus 
>> VGA rom size???
>
>
> see my linux journal article on the web. I think that's where it is. 
> There is a figure there that might clear it up.
>
> Or I can send you the article directly.
>
> ron
>





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