yogev_ezra wrote:Dear Jacky,
Right now KolibriOS still needs to use BIOS. But we can work to add CoreBoot support to KolibriOS (this is a freeware open-source BIOS that replaces the standard BIOS), and then KolibriOS can be loaded directly from CoreBoot, and reside inside the BIOS Flash ROM chip, so you do not even need to provide external storage. This can lower your BOM cost very much, because you do not need to pay for AMI BIOS / Award BIOS and can install KolibriOS without any storage.
If you are willing to provide us 2-3 free samples of development board using RDC IAD100 PD or IAD 100 PE, and can supply us your NDA datasheet for this system, then we can make CoreBoot support for your platform, and make KolibriOS boot from inside Coreboot without need for factory BIOS.
You can try KolibriOS now, please follow these instructions to boot it from SD card or USB memory stick:
http://www.deviceonchip.com/index.php?o ... &Itemid=85
Those are instructions for DMP Vortex86MX CPU, but since a lot is similar between DMP and RDC, I think it will work.
If you engineer is having difficulty to install KolibriOS, then you can pass him my e-mail address and he can contact me directly.
Regarding your suggestions:
1) Is not possible, we have about 30 active developers, and each of them is located in other place of the World (Russia, Ukraine, England, Israel, Belgium, Kyrgyzstan etc.) so it's not feasible for us to visit your offices
2) We have the old Linux M2010 reference source code, provided to us by DMP, so if you have newer source code, we would appreciate to receive it, but this is not enough for us, as we need to have the registers map with the description of bit fields - to make the most processing power out of your GPU. Because as I mentioned earlier, we use Assembly language to write the OS (FASM), so we talk directly to the hardware, without any abstraction layers, this is why we need more information that Linux would need.
3) The datasheet seems like the best option in our case, but I think you have the R3308 + C6037 datasheet ready, because companies like Timespad are already starting to make notebooks based on your platform, so they got to have the datasheet from you? I was in contact with Timespad CEO a few months ago regarding your IAD 100PE platform, and they have the documentation from you but they cannot send it to me because of the NDA. So if I sign the same NDA as them, can I receive the same documents as them?
Best regards,
Yogev Ezra
Green Gadgets Ltd