[OpenBIOS] [OT] Freebios

[Edwin Rhodes]

Hi, thaks for sending me the code, which compiler do i use to recompile
it???
thanks
edwin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tobias Diedrich" <ranma at gmx.at>
To: <openbios at elvis.informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 2:51 AM
Subject: [OpenBIOS] [OT] Freebios


> I don't know if anyone here is interested in this, but some time ago
(1998) I
> started writing a pc-compatible bios for fun, but never finished it.
>
> So in case someone is interested in the little code I wrote you may find
> it at http://ranmachan.dyndns.org/~ranma/freebios-0.0.1.tar.gz (~67KB) ...
> [As long as my system is up, which should be nearly 24hours/day, and
> my internet connection and the dyndns.org dns updates are working...]
>
> I stopped because I had trouble figuring out how to enable SDRAM on my
> Pentium Mobo with Intel chipset...
> However for an older 486 Chipset there were specs in an old c't magazine,
so
> I was able to boot into dos with this piece of code...
> (Don't know if it's still working, I did not try it recently...
> The floppy code is buggy IIRC... No HD support)
>
> Of course this probably doesn't help a bit with openbios development, but
maybe
> someone will find it interesting to look at :-)
>
> GPL license, no reverse engineering of propriatary BIOSes was involved,
> I had to go with only a few books (Basically "PC Hardwarebook" and
> "PC Programmers Guide to low level Functions and Interrupts")
>
> --
> Tobias      PGP-Key: 0x9AC7E0BC
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