* Greg Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040608 15:22]: > I think this is a reasonable idea, particularly your suggestion of > making linuxbios more modular. One of my main beefs with the payload > strategy is that each payload has to provide it's own set of, > potentially buggy, driver code. If we have 5 payloads then we have 5 > sets of drivers that all do the same thing slightly differently. If the > drivers were modular enough so that a payload could call them directly, > then this would go a long way to addressing these concerns.
As far as I can tell the only drivers involved would be output drivers, ie. video output and serial output. There the extensible LinuxBIOS table could come into play. The video driver could store a pointer to the framebuffer, the resolution and maybe even a font, to save duplicates. Serial is only a kilobyte or so of a driver i think. Have I forgotten something? Stefan _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
