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Uwe Hermann 88f2f6402a This is a major update to the lar archiver. It simplifies the build process and
is a base change to make the whole linuxbios.rom a lar file.

* fix a whole lot of lar bugs (that never showed up in production yet)
* add proper option parsing to lar
* add verbose option
* add option to automatically pad lar archive to a certain size
* add proper file handling (specifying a directory will now pack all files
  in that directory into the lar, instead of a 4k dummy file)
* catch lots of user errors, less implicit assumptions
* merge all header files into lib.h (except lar.h which is needed by other
  programs using the lar format). lib.h is still very small.
* print errors to stderr
* (slipped in) copy linuxbios.rom to bios.bin for qemu ;-)
* adapt arch/x86/Makefile to use the new features.
* set version to 0.9
* lots of security bugs fixed (thanks to Uwe!)
* catch low memory conditions in strdup

Signed-off-by: Stefan Reinauer <stepan@coresystems.de>
Acked-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>



git-svn-id: svn://coreboot.org/repository/LinuxBIOSv3@234 f3766cd6-281f-0410-b1cd-43a5c92072e9
2007-03-10 16:20:01 +00:00
arch This is a major update to the lar archiver. It simplifies the build process and 2007-03-10 16:20:01 +00:00
console Sync device ID list for the EHCI Debug Port from the wiki, 2007-03-08 23:57:58 +00:00
device new device model from Ron 2007-03-10 15:55:41 +00:00
doc Consistently use 'printf' instead of 'echo' to print stuff to 2007-03-09 00:41:23 +00:00
include new device model from Ron 2007-03-10 15:55:41 +00:00
lib Use 'unsigned int' instead of 'unsigned'. 2007-03-09 16:02:58 +00:00
mainboard new device model from Ron 2007-03-10 15:55:41 +00:00
northbridge/intel/i440bxemulation new device model from Ron 2007-03-10 15:55:41 +00:00
southbridge/intel/i82371eb new device model from Ron 2007-03-10 15:55:41 +00:00
util This is a major update to the lar archiver. It simplifies the build process and 2007-03-10 16:20:01 +00:00
COPYING filling in 2006-10-06 19:19:14 +00:00
HACKING Document the origin of include/cpu/generic/x86/div64.h (trivial). 2007-03-09 12:41:05 +00:00
Kconfig Various cosmetic fixes (trivial). 2007-03-06 05:08:31 +00:00
Makefile Consistently use 'printf' instead of 'echo' to print stuff to 2007-03-09 00:41:23 +00:00
README Add a note that the resulting LinuxBIOS images are licensed under the 2007-02-27 22:19:52 +00:00

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
LinuxBIOS README
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

LinuxBIOS is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary
BIOS you can find in most of today's computers.

It performs just a little bit of hardware initialization and then executes
one of many possible payloads, e.g. a Linux kernel.


Payloads
--------

After the basic initialization of the hardware has been performed, any
desired "payload" can be started by LinuxBIOS. Examples include:

 * A Linux kernel
 * FILO (a simple bootloader with filesystem support)
 * GRUB2 (a free bootloader; support is in development)
 * OpenBIOS (a free IEEE1275-1994 Open Firmware implementation)
 * Open Firmware (a free IEEE1275-1994 Open Firmware implementation)
 * SmartFirmware (a free IEEE1275-1994 Open Firmware implementation)
 * GNUFI (a free, UEFI-compatible firmware)
 * Etherboot (for network booting and booting from raw IDE or FILO)
 * ADLO (for booting Windows 2000 or OpenBSD)
 * Plan 9 (a distributed operating system)
 * memtest86 (for testing your RAM)


Supported Hardware
------------------

LinuxBIOS supports a wide range of chipsets, devices, and mainboards.

For details please consult:

 * http://www.linuxbios.org/Supported_Motherboards
 * http://www.linuxbios.org/Supported_Chipsets_and_Devices


Website and Mailing List
------------------------

Further details on the project, a FAQ, many HOWTOs, news, development
guidelines and more can be found on the LinuxBIOS website:

  http://www.linuxbios.org

You can contact us directly on the LinuxBIOS mailing list:

  http://www.linuxbios.org/Mailinglist


Copyright and License
---------------------

The copyright on LinuxBIOS is owned by quite a large number of individual
developers and companies. Please check the individual source files for details.

LinuxBIOS is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Some files are licensed under the "GPL (version 2, or any later version)",
and some files (mostly those derived from the Linux kernel) are licensed under
the "GPL, version 2". For some parts, which were derived from other projects,
other (GPL-compatible) licenses may apply. Please check the individual
source files for details.

This makes the resulting LinuxBIOS images licensed under the GPL, version 2.