On 15/08/06 10:29 -0600, ollie wrote: > On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 10:15 -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote: > > ollie wrote: > > > > > I haven't looked at the very early init of Linux kernel for a long > > > time. IIRC, we can just boot the vmlinux ELF image with LinuxBIOS/FILO > > > The ELF image does not contain the arch/i386/boot stuff at all. Is > > > there any reason we have to load something like bzImage? > > > > > > > I think the issue is that VGA parameters have to be set. See below. How > > do we want to do this? > > > > Why do we have to do that? These parameters were never set for any of > the previous LinuxBIOS platforms with VGA support. Does the GX2 > framebuffer driver require it?
Absolutely not. I just want to make sure the code in arch/i386/boot doesn't happen to randomly get a bad value and freak out. If there is no chance of a freakout, then we'll pull the NOVGA patch and happily go on our way. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Senior Linux Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. <www.amd.com/embeddedprocessors> _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
