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 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 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.
> 
> We already do.  Although getting the irq routing information into the device
> tree and the linuxbios table is something I have on the todo list.
> 
> The ADLO loader needs to handle the conversion from the format linuxbios uses
> and whatever bochs bios uses.  Currently the loader is terribly primitive.
> 
> Eric
>
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