[OLPC-devel] Please convert your boards to LinuxBIOS.

[Simon Schampijer]

Hi Jim, OLPC-testers,

I did the move to LinuxBIOS yesterday and are happy to announce that 
everything went fine following the very good instructions. The most 
difficult part was to find the keys needed to set the date in the bios 
with my german keyboard:)

Thanks for the good work,
Simon


Jim Gettys wrote:
> Ihe Insyde BIOS has started complaining about the date, and refuse to
> boot unless you set the date back.  If you encounter this, just set the
> date in the Insyde BIOS in the range of June or July as a temporary
> workaround.
>
> But we are now very happy to announce the "Let's stop breaking bones
> release!". 
>
> We would like everyone to move to LinuxBIOS, along with:
>   o using Linux as a bootloader
>   o the gxfb fbdev console device driver
>   o the "amd" EXA X Window System driver with early support for 
>     alpha blending
>   o native Linux support for updating the BIOS flash.
>   o JFFS2 file system support for the internal flash
>   o Marvell Wireless driver 
>         (Please make sure your antennae are installed!)
>   o An very early version of the Sugar user interface framework.
>
> Please read the installation directions found at:
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Upgrading_to_LinuxBIOS carefully, and make
> sure you understand them, before starting the upgrade.
>
> On behalf of the many people who made this possible, our great thanks!
>                               - Jim Gettys
>