award BIOS sources

[apasynth]

Would anyone here that can view chinese sites properly check & see if the sources listed here:

http://www.tomore.com/1/10919.html

...can still be retreived?

It's supposed to be the full "Award Bios 6.00Pg Source Code" which floated around the 'net for awhile.

Thanks

OK, never mind - got it. For those interested:

http://down3.tomore.com/down/datanew/2003120207281622665.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/63458/award1999.zip.html

[BugsBunny]

so what you're gonna do with it :) ?

[nesukun]

he is gonna write an efi emulation layer inside BIOS and also an hypervisor (for vanderpool CPU's) in BIOS level...




... or that's what I wish?

[apasynth]

so what you're gonna do with it :) ?

Remember xom.efi?

I can see already, that the most economical way (in terms of hacking energy) to provide the information OS X needs is to load it as a BIOS-"like" module.

That's what is going on with titan/natit, sound, etc.

I hacked a BIOS extension onto my 955x board so the LSI SCSI raid controller I have would behave properly. But it doesn't make good sense to hack every BIOS on every hackint0sh out there.

Better for everything - whether it's a greyed out "Max CPUID" or a different mini-pci network card to do it thataway.

In checking around, I've discovered that the tools available for Award BIOS are obsolete.

And we have all these others, Insyde, AMI - more I'm sure.

@ Bugs: What branding does your BIOS show? Just Toshiba, or Award(or similar?)

@ nesukun: Apple's EFI is like the wizard of Oz - just a little old bald guy fooling the pants off of everyone.

This little game of Apple has got me thinking that we all - Linux, OS X and Winderz users need to rethink the way we get those OSs' onto our boxen.

[BugsBunny]

@ apasynth: yes, that is a great approach -I have been watching what bofors, Kiko etc, have been doing.

In BIOS my BIOS only shows up with a long ID-string + version number (2.4), in Mac OS sys profiler nothing BIOS specific shows up. Depending on the kernel I boot (.4 or .8) it sometimes mentions Toshiba in System Profiler.

[apasynth]

@ apasynth: yes, that is a great approach -I have been watching what bofors, Kiko etc, have been doing.

In BIOS my BIOS only shows up with a long ID-string + version number (2.4), in Mac OS sys profiler nothing BIOS specific shows up. Depending on the kernel I boot (.4 or .8) it sometimes mentions Toshiba in System Profiler.

If you save off a copy of the BIOS, then browse it with a text editor, near the bottom or top should at least see text string for Award, Insyde or similar.

[BugsBunny]

Could not find anything, but my BIOS is here:

http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com/cgi-bin/ToshibaCSG/download_drivers_bios.jsp?service=EU&mode=allMachines&action=search&teddProduct=637

Cheers,
Bugs

[apasynth]

Could not find anything, but my BIOS is here:

http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com/cgi-bin/ToshibaCSG/download_drivers_bios.jsp?service=EU&mode=allMachines&action=search&teddProduct=637

Cheers,
Bugs

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