Re: Anyone tried LinuxBIOS with freeBSD?

2005-03-10 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, yhlu wrote: if remove FreeBSD's dependence on BIOS calls. can we move pci bus routine from Linux Kernel to them? Is any license problem with that? yes. But I think freebsd would work fine without bios calls, when I looked it was informational calls they made such as

Re: Anyone tried LinuxBIOS with freeBSD?

2005-03-09 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* yhlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050309 04:27]: 1. LinuxBIOS need to pass the position pirq table to loader.s --- put that in CMOS or loader.s search that in RAM PIR 2. LinuxBIOS need to pass the entries in e820 at 1MB to loader.s, or put that in CMOS in LinuxBIOS stage. what standard need to

Re: Anyone tried LinuxBIOS with freeBSD?

2005-03-09 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Stefan Reinauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * yhlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050309 04:27]: 1. LinuxBIOS need to pass the position pirq table to loader.s --- put that in CMOS or loader.s search that in RAM PIR 2. LinuxBIOS need to pass the entries in e820 at 1MB to loader.s, or put that in CMOS

Re: Anyone tried LinuxBIOS with freeBSD?

2005-03-09 Thread Richard Smith
The ADLO loader needs to handle the conversion from the format linuxbios uses and whatever bochs bios uses. Currently the loader is terribly primitive. Bochs dosen't use any of those tables IIRC. The ADLO build just sticks them in the image file and they get block copied by the loader along

Re: Anyone tried LinuxBIOS with freeBSD?

2005-03-09 Thread Richard Smith
Richard, can you please make one and post it? Then I can drop it in the wiki if you don't have time. Here's my additions to the ADLO serial patch. This will output info to both the video head and the serial port. I also preserved the original full redirect which may be useful if writes to

Re: Anyone tried LinuxBIOS with freeBSD?

2005-03-09 Thread yhlu
So you mean We should make the ADLO to understand the linuxbios table like Etherboot and FILO? YH On 08 Mar 2005 23:17:04 -0700, Eric W. Biederman ebiederman@lnxi.com wrote: yhlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. LinuxBIOS need to pass the position pirq table to loader.s --- put that in CMOS

Re: Anyone tried LinuxBIOS with freeBSD?

2005-03-09 Thread yhlu
I plan to put the ADLO and BOCHS into the Etherboot and just like FILO in the Etherboot. SO I don't need to handle elf header stuff Is it a good way? YH On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 09:18:08 -0800, yhlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So you mean We should make the ADLO to understand the linuxbios table

Re: Anyone tried LinuxBIOS with freeBSD?

2005-03-09 Thread yhlu
Ron, if remove FreeBSD's dependence on BIOS calls. can we move pci bus routine from Linux Kernel to them? Is any license problem with that? YH On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 09:23:27 -0800, yhlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I plan to put the ADLO and BOCHS into the Etherboot and just like FILO in the

Re: Anyone tried LinuxBIOS with freeBSD?

2005-03-08 Thread yhlu
So need to make shadowing work in V2 before make ADLO working...? which region? YH On 07 Mar 2005 21:34:35 -0700, Eric W. Biederman ebiederman@lnxi.com wrote: Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 15:37:31 -0600, Bari Ari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Anyone tried LinuxBIOS with freeBSD?

2005-03-08 Thread Richard Smith
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 09:53:03 -0800, yhlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So need to make shadowing work in V2 before make ADLO working...? which region? 0xf - 0xf and 0xc- 0xc. Look at util/ADLO/loader.s That shows you the ranges. -- Richard A. Smith

Re: Anyone tried LinuxBIOS with freeBSD?

2005-03-08 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 09:53:03 -0800, yhlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So need to make shadowing work in V2 before make ADLO working...? which region? 0xf - 0xf and 0xc- 0xc. Look at util/ADLO/loader.s That shows you the ranges.

Re: Anyone tried LinuxBIOS with freeBSD?

2005-03-08 Thread yhlu
some questions 1. Where is the defacto location for the serial patch for ADLO? 2. about vga init, linuxbios v2 already init that and copy that into 0xc, ADLO still need vga...bin, or let the ADLO do vga init YH On 08 Mar 2005 12:07:04 -0700, Eric W. Biederman ebiederman@lnxi.com wrote:

Re: Anyone tried LinuxBIOS with freeBSD?

2005-03-08 Thread Richard Smith
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 14:44:41 -0800, yhlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: some questions 1. Where is the defacto location for the serial patch for ADLO? There isn't one. Search the archvies or I'll have to make you one later on tonight. 2. about vga init, linuxbios v2 already init that and copy that

Re: Anyone tried LinuxBIOS with freeBSD?

2005-03-08 Thread Bari Ari
Richard Smith wrote: On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 14:44:41 -0800, yhlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: some questions 1. Where is the defacto location for the serial patch for ADLO? There isn't one. Search the archvies or I'll have to make you one later on tonight. We need to fix this in the wiki on the ADLO

Re: Anyone tried LinuxBIOS with freeBSD?

2005-03-08 Thread Richard Smith
There isn't one. Search the archvies or I'll have to make you one later on tonight. We need to fix this in the wiki on the ADLO page: /!\ FixMe Where is the defacto location for the serial patch? Richard, can you please make one and post it? Then I can drop it in the wiki if you

Re: Anyone tried LinuxBIOS with freeBSD?

2005-03-08 Thread Richard Smith
We need to fix this in the wiki on the ADLO page: /!\ FixMe Where is the defacto location for the serial patch? Richard, can you please make one and post it? Then I can drop it in the wiki if you don't have time. Well then looks like I'm the defacto location. I've actually

Re: Anyone tried LinuxBIOS with freeBSD?

2005-03-08 Thread yhlu
While use ADLO to boot HD, the kernel can not found mptable ootdata ok (command line is root=/dev/hda2 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200 splash=silent apic) Linux version 2.6.11-rc4 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux)) #2 SMP Fri Feb 18 15:15:37 PST 2005 BIOS-provided physical RAM

Re: Anyone tried LinuxBIOS with freeBSD?

2005-03-08 Thread Eric W. Biederman
yhlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LinuxBIOS already got pirq table and mptable and may put vga_bios in 0xc. I would help ADLO can get these data automatically. Right if the ADLO loader can be tweaked to copy these from LinuxBIOS we could shortly have a generic ADLO which would be much

Re: Anyone tried LinuxBIOS with freeBSD?

2005-03-08 Thread yhlu
1. LinuxBIOS need to pass the position pirq table to loader.s --- put that in CMOS or loader.s search that in RAM PIR 2. LinuxBIOS need to pass the entries in e820 at 1MB to loader.s, or put that in CMOS in LinuxBIOS stage. what standard need to put this in CMOS... 3. VGA BIOS already be

Re: Anyone tried LinuxBIOS with freeBSD?

2005-03-08 Thread yhlu
ADLO need to use CMOS to pass ram range at 1MB to BOCHS. 0x30, 0x31, 0x34, 0x35. So it would be [384, 400), [416, 432). it will confilt with cmos.layout. why use that position? YH On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 19:27:32 -0800, yhlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. LinuxBIOS need to pass the position pirq

Re: Anyone tried LinuxBIOS with freeBSD?

2005-03-08 Thread Richard Smith
this in CMOS... 3. VGA BIOS already be copied by LinuxBIOS, but should still need let ADLO know the dev and fun of that .--- put that in CMOS? 4. mptable is alredy in the RAM. Any suggestion about 1 and 2. If you use CMOS then make sure the code dosen't depend on some sort of

Re: Anyone tried LinuxBIOS with freeBSD?

2005-03-08 Thread Eric W. Biederman
yhlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. LinuxBIOS need to pass the position pirq table to loader.s --- put that in CMOS or loader.s search that in RAM PIR 2. LinuxBIOS need to pass the entries in e820 at 1MB to loader.s, or put that in CMOS in LinuxBIOS stage. what standard need to put this

Re: Anyone tried LinuxBIOS with freeBSD?

2005-03-07 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 15:37:31 -0600, Bari Ari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://wiki.linuxbios.org/ADLO That info is all from my V1 stuff and ADLO is not in V2 yet. However its just a elf payload just like anything else so it will load fine. It

Re: Anyone tried LinuxBIOS with freeBSD?

2005-03-04 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, YhLu wrote: Anyone tried LinuxBIOS with freeBSD? I talked to freebsd guys about it. Freebsd makes BIOS calls, so that would need to be fixed. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http

Re: Anyone tried LinuxBIOS with freeBSD?

2005-03-04 Thread Richard Smith
Anyone tried LinuxBIOS with freeBSD? I talked to freebsd guys about it. Freebsd makes BIOS calls, so that would need to be fixed. That or see if it works with ADLO. -- Richard A. Smith ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http

Re: Anyone tried LinuxBIOS with freeBSD?

2005-03-04 Thread Bari Ari
Richard Smith wrote: Anyone tried LinuxBIOS with freeBSD? I talked to freebsd guys about it. Freebsd makes BIOS calls, so that would need to be fixed. That or see if it works with ADLO. Since it's FreeBSD vs Win, it should be easier to make ADLO work if it doesn't work right out of the box

Re: Anyone tried LinuxBIOS with freeBSD?

2005-03-04 Thread yhlu
where is the ADLO latest code and doc? YH On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 14:15:47 -0600, Bari Ari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Smith wrote: Anyone tried LinuxBIOS with freeBSD? I talked to freebsd guys about it. Freebsd makes BIOS calls, so that would need to be fixed. That or see

Re: Anyone tried LinuxBIOS with freeBSD?

2005-03-04 Thread Bari Ari
http://wiki.linuxbios.org/ADLO -Bari yhlu wrote: where is the ADLO latest code and doc? YH ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: Anyone tried LinuxBIOS with freeBSD?

2005-03-04 Thread Richard Smith
On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 15:37:31 -0600, Bari Ari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://wiki.linuxbios.org/ADLO That info is all from my V1 stuff and ADLO is not in V2 yet. However its just a elf payload just like anything else so it will load fine. It won't run until you get the shadowing right. I

Anyone tried LinuxBIOS with freeBSD?

2005-03-03 Thread YhLu
Anyone tried LinuxBIOS with freeBSD? regards YH ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios