Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 21:52:10 -0800 From: Parag Patel <parag@cgt.com> To: up@3.am, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, matt@msg.ucsf.edu Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, tjm@codegen.com Subject: Re: console friendly motherboard/BIOS ? Message-ID: <79635.952753930@pinhead.parag.codegen.com> In-Reply-To: Message from <up@3.am> of "Sat, 11 Mar 2000 00:08:06 EST." <Pine.BSF.4.10.10003110007220.88680-100000@richard2.pil.net>
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On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > i then heard that some motherboard/BIOS combinations do this too. since i > need to upgrade my machine anyhow, i can kill 2 birds with one stone by > getting such a system and skipping the Weasel. can anyone suggest a > motherboard/BIOS that does this? i'm not picky about the CPU, any current > models would likely be plenty fast. Just FYI, I'm porting SmartFirmware to an Intel L440GX+ right now due to interest from some customers. SF is IEEE-1275 `OpenBoot' compliant firmware written in ANSI C. Please see <http://www.codegen.com/>; for details. If all goes well (hah!) I should have a preliminary beta running out of flash in 1-2 months, depending on how much free time I can find. It'll be pretty limited and won't support most legacy devices initially, and the console will be only on /pci/isa/serial. Once SmartFirmware is running from ROM, the next step is to port some of the more popular OSes such as OpenBSD, Linux, and FreeBSD. SF won't be able to run any OS that needs a PC BIOS nor any cards that have only x86 ROMs (well, those without builtin C drivers). Anyway, it'll take a while due to other work. I'll post a note when I have something running if enough people are interested. Longer-term plans are to port to a few additional motherboards and devices depending on demand. -- Parag Patel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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