On Fri, 6 May 2005, James wrote:
The most uncooperative company is Intel, which has started a sham "open source"
BIOS project. The software consists of all the unimportant parts of of a BIOS,
without the hard parts. It won't run, and doesn't bring us any closer to a BIOS
that does run. It is just a
Norbert Kamenicky xmedia.sk> writes:
>
>
> Yes, I many times removed BIOS extension chips (not needed during kernel
> boot) from different cards, just to boot faster...
> if it's not easy, there is always a possibility to cut chip select/
> enable (CS/CE) wire near to chip's pin.
OK
>
> Linux
Peter Karlsson student.chalmers.se> writes:
> > For most of the legacy hardware: drives, floppy, CD, mouse, serial ports
> > this may be true. But, let's think about ACPI, I2C, sensors, SMBus,
> > Dallas one-wire, and the myriad of undocumented hardware/comm channels
> > going on the motherboard.
James wrote:
> Norbert Kamenicky xmedia.sk> writes:
>
>
>
>>The purpose of BIOS is not to provide complete and excellent HW
>>maintenance in multitasking environment, but system boot up only.
>>Maybe there are some exceptions, but generaly if kernel is alive,
>>u can safely remove all BIOS chip
On 5/6/05, Peter Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Afaiu, you don't need to modify the bios.
> http://www.xbox-linux.org/Software_Method_HOWTO
AFAIU this is not appropriate and won't work for the newest versions
of the XBox. (Version 1.6b) The newest versions of the XBox have stuff
in the S
On Thu, 5 May 2005, Mark Knecht wrote:
My main interest in this area is one that most here won't probably
have much experience on - Gentoo-xbox. In the case of Gentoo proper
running on the XBox there is a large amount of confusion and differing
opinions about BIOS. Clearly you have to make a change
On Thu, 5 May 2005, James wrote:
For most of the legacy hardware: drives, floppy, CD, mouse, serial ports
this may be true. But, let's think about ACPI, I2C, sensors, SMBus,
Dallas one-wire, and the myriad of undocumented hardware/comm channels
going on the motherboard. Not to mention that the evil
Been there, done that. Lots of info but none on this question.
thanks,
Mark
On 5/5/05, Roy O. Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> Just did a search "linux xbox bios" and hit http://xbox-linux.org which
> sounds like exactly what
> you are looking for.
>
> HTH,
> Roy
>
>
> --
> gen
Howdy,
Just did a search "linux xbox bios" and hit http://xbox-linux.org which
sounds like exactly what
you are looking for.
HTH,
Roy
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On 5/5/05, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am sure there must be xbox-linux mailing lists of forums out there
> somewhere...
There are. They are mostly full of confused people with many different
agendas. It's very hard to weed out the responses that make sense. 99%
of the people inhabiti
I am sure there must be xbox-linux mailing lists of forums out there
somewhere...
However I don't know why you would need to put a different bios in.
On Thu, 5 May 2005 16:34:16 -0700
Mark Knecht wrote:
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> My main interest in this area is one that most here won't probably
> have much experien
On 5/5/05, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Norbert Kamenicky xmedia.sk> writes:
>
> > The purpose of BIOS is not to provide complete and excellent HW
> > maintenance in multitasking environment, but system boot up only.
> > Maybe there are some exceptions, but generaly if kernel is alive,
> >
Norbert Kamenicky xmedia.sk> writes:
> The purpose of BIOS is not to provide complete and excellent HW
> maintenance in multitasking environment, but system boot up only.
> Maybe there are some exceptions, but generaly if kernel is alive,
> u can safely remove all BIOS chips from it's sockets.
Mark Knecht gmail.com> writes:
> 2) If my machines are depending on system BIOS is there a way for me
> to tell what calls are being made to system BIOS, or at least
> understanding what parts of system BIOS Linux is using?
Hello Mark,
First post did not seem to make it. Here's a good intro ar
Mark Knecht gmail.com> writes:
> 1) After my machines are running Gentoo is system BIOS still being
> used in ANY way? Please assume P4/Athlon XP level machines.
>
> 2) If my machines are depending on system BIOS is there a way for me
> to tell what calls are being made to system BIOS, or at lea
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