From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18380 invoked by alias); 18 Jul 2002 07:44:47 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ecos-discuss-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-discuss-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 18373 invoked from network); 18 Jul 2002 07:44:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO kasica.elsis.si) (194.249.198.85) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 18 Jul 2002 07:44:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 3152 invoked by uid 1005); 18 Jul 2002 10:44:45 -0000 Received: from iz@vsr.si by kasica by uid 1002 with qmail-scanner-1.10 (sweep: 2.9/3.55. . Clear:0. Processed in 1.262912 secs); 18 Jul 2002 10:44:45 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: iz@vsr.si via kasica X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.10 (Clear:0. Processed in 1.262912 secs) Received: from unknown (HELO conc) (194.249.198.84) by kasica.elsis.si with SMTP; 18 Jul 2002 10:44:43 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Iztok Zupet Reply-To: iz@vsr.si Organization: VSR d.o.o. To: Madhu Lakshmanan , ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 00:44:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.1 References: <20020718013430.41368.qmail@web13903.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20020718013430.41368.qmail@web13903.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200207180945.38460.iz@vsr.si> Subject: Re: [ECOS] Newbie questions X-SW-Source: 2002-07/txt/msg00262.txt.bz2 On Thursday 18 July 2002 03:34, Madhu Lakshmanan wrote: > Does Redboot for an x86 platform assume that chipsets > like the Northbridge, Southbridge, etc., are > initialized by a BIOS? > > Can I use the current / latest Redboot sources to > create a Redboot for a generic x86 PC which _does not_ > have a BIOS? > > Thanks, > > Madhu Lakshmanan > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Autos - Get free new car price quotes > http://autos.yahoo.com You can try RedBoot ROM target (very experimental) and burn it to Your BIOS flash/eprom. Regards iz -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://sources.redhat.com/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/ecos-discuss