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Install Coreboot on a Nokia IP530 HOWTO. 6 References and Resources The following URLs were incredibly useful in writing this HOWTO and generally getting ACPI up and running. www.coreboot.org Coreboot (formerly known as LinuxBIOS) is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS (firmware) you can find in most of today's computers. It performs just a little bit of hardware initialization and then executes a so-called payload. www.flashrom.org Flashrom is a utility for identifying, reading, writing, verifying and erasing flash chips. Flashrom is designed to flash BIOS/EFI/ Coreboot/firmware/option ROM images on main boards, network/graphics/storage controller cards, and various programmer devices. www.seabios.org SeaBIOS is an open source implementation of a 16bit X86 BIOS. SeaBIOS can run in an emulator or it can run natively on X86 hardware with the use of Coreboot. http://code.google.com/p/sgabios/ The Google Serial Graphics Adapter BIOS or SGABIOS provides a means for legacy x86 software to communicate with an attached serial console as if a video card were attached. SGABIOS is designed to be inserted into a BIOS as an option rom to provide over a serial port the display and input capabilities normally handled by a VGA adapter and a keyboard, and additionally provide hooks for logging displayed characters for later collection after an operating system boots. It is designed to handle all text mode output sent to the legacy video bios int 10h service routine. INT 10h is the most common method for displaying characters in 16-bit legacy x86 code. www.google.com All well to known..... And all sites that i found that gave me every little bit of information to get Coreboot working on the Nokia IP530. Page 8 of 9

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Install Coreboot on a Nokia IP530 HOWTO.
6
References and Resources
The following URLs were incredibly useful in writing this HOWTO and generally
getting ACPI up and running.
www.coreboot.org
Coreboot (formerly known as LinuxBIOS) is a Free Software
project aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS (firmware) you
can find in most of today's computers. It performs just a little bit
of hardware initialization and then executes a so-called payload.
www.flashrom.org
Flashrom is a utility for identifying, reading, writing, verifying
and erasing flash chips. Flashrom is designed to flash BIOS/EFI/
Coreboot/firmware/option ROM images on main boards,
network/graphics/storage controller cards, and various
programmer devices.
www.seabios.org
SeaBIOS is an open source implementation of a 16bit X86 BIOS.
SeaBIOS can run in an emulator or it can run natively on X86
hardware with the use of Coreboot.
The Google Serial Graphics Adapter BIOS or SGABIOS
provides a means for legacy x86 software to communicate with
an attached serial console as if a video card were attached.
SGABIOS is designed to be inserted into a BIOS as an option
rom to provide over a serial port the display and input
capabilities normally handled by a VGA adapter and a keyboard,
and additionally provide hooks for logging displayed characters
for later collection after an operating system boots. It is designed
to handle all text mode output sent to the legacy video bios int
10h service routine. INT 10h is the most common method for
displaying characters in 16-bit legacy x86 code.
www.google.com
All well to known
.....
And all sites that i found that gave me every little bit of information to get Coreboot
working on the Nokia IP530.
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